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Language Interfaces in Adult Heritage Language Acquisition: A Study on Encoding of Nominal Reference in Mandarin Chinese as a Heritage Language [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 According to the Interface Hypothesis in the field of bilingualism, the interface connecting a linguistic module with a language-external domain (e.g., syntax-discourse) will present prolonged difficulties for adult bilingual learners, as compared with ...
Jing Jin +3 more
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Languages, 2021 This paper intends to provide some speculative remarks on how consistency and continuity in language use practices within and across contexts inform heritage language acquisition outcomes.
Irene Caloi, Jacopo Torregrossa
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Glottodidactica, 2021 The objective of the study was to scrutinise the determinants of heritage language maintenance and second language acquisition in immigrant speakers and assess their significance and weight. Over one hundred cases of bilingual speakers with Polish as L1
Ilona Banasiak +1 more
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Frontiers in Language SciencesThere are vast individual differences in heritage bilinguals' linguistic skills. It is not clear, however, to what extent this variation can be attributed to experience, cognitive ability or motivation.
Magdalena Grose-Hodge +3 more
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Languages, 2021 Recent proposals suggest that timing in acquisition, i.e., the age at which a phenomenon is mastered by monolingual children, influences acquisition of the L2, interacting with age of onset of bilingualism and amount of L2 input. Here, we examine whether
Christos Makrodimitris, Petra Schulz
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Languages, 2023 While differences in the production and acceptability of aspectual inflectional morphology between Spanish–English heritage and monolingually raised speakers of Spanish have been argued to support incomplete acquisition approaches to heritage language ...
Gabriel Martínez Vera +5 more
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Predictors of language proficiency and cultural identification in heritage bilinguals
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 According to the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau, more than 66 million residents over the age of 5 in the United States speak a language other than English at home.
Sayuri Hayakawa +3 more
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Case marking is different in monolingual and heritage Bosnian in digitally elicited oral texts
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Heritage languages may differ from baseline languages spoken in the home country, particularly in the domains of vocabulary, morphosyntax and phonology.
Ilma Jažić +2 more
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The subject advantage in relative clauses: A review
Glossa, 2021 The question of whether there exists a universal subject preference in relativization has stimulated research in a wide range of languages and across different domains, yielding an extensive body of literature in relative clause acquisition and ...
Elaine Lau, Nozomi Tanaka
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Modeling Heritage Language Phonetics and Phonology: Toward an Integrated Multilingual Sound System
Languages, 2021 Although heritage language phonology is often argued to be fairly stable, heritage language speakers often sound noticeably different from both monolinguals and second-language learners.
David Natvig
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