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Complexity in Instructed Heritage Language Acquisition
Heritage Language Journal, 2021Abstract In this article, I reflect on the role of linguistic complexity in instructed heritage language (HL) acquisition by specifically examining morphosyntactic linguistic complexity as it relates to factors such as transparency, saliency, and communicative value.
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Acquisition Planning for Regional Indigenous Heritage Languages in Indonesia [PDF]
SAGE Open, 2020 Regional indigenous heritage languages (RIHLs) are in decline in Indonesia, and this problem needs attention from language policy and planning. This study explores a subset of the Indonesian language policy, namely, its acquisition planning. Content analysis and doctrinal method were employed. The sample included national legislations and some regional
Bambang Suwarno
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The nature and nurture of heritage language acquisition
Lingua, 2015The present Special Issue presents a selection of papers resulting from the workshop “Heritage languages: language contact-change-maintenance and loss in the wave of new migration landscapes” which was held at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, in October 2012.
Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Katrin Schmitz
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AN EMERGENTIST PERSPECTIVE ON HERITAGE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011It is widely recognized that the processor has a key role to play in creating and strengthening the mapping between form and meaning that is integral to language use. Adopting an emergentist approach to heritage language acquisition, the current study considers the extent to which the operation of the processor can contribute to an account of what is ...
William O’Grady +3 more
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Foreign language acquisition in heritage speakers
2013L3 acquisition has been a topic of increasing interest throughout the past decade. Nevertheless, linguistically-oriented work has so far paid little attention to the acquisition of foreign languages by second generation minority (or heritage ) speakers, who have acquired two languages in ...
Tanja Kupisch, Neal Snape, Ilse Stangen
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Perspectives on heritage sign language acquisition and maintenance
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf EducationAbstract This article explores the perspectives on the acquisition and maintenance of heritage sign language in Spain among heritage signers themselves and sign language teachers, focusing on how such perspectives influence the use of a heritage sign language.
Papin, Stéphanie +1 more
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The acquisition of Portuguese as heritage language
Abstract This chapter gives an overview of the main research questions and theoretical approaches at the core of the study of the acquisition of Portuguese as a heritage language (HL). It discusses the heterogeneous profiles of heritage speakers of Portuguese and introduces important distinctions between key terms in the field.Anabela Rato, Cristina Flores
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On language acquisition and language change
2016Whether multilingual heritage settings can lead to imperfect language acquisition and language change is debated in the literature (Lightfoot 1991; Meisel 2010; Montrul 2004; Montrul & Potowski 2007; Pascual Y Cabo & Rothman 2012; Silva-Corvalán 1994; Sorace 2004).
Cognola, Federica, Bidese, Ermenegildo
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The acquisition of relative clauses by Mandarin heritage language children
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2018AbstractThis study examined the phenomena of incomplete acquisition, attrition, and protracted acquisition of the L1 in HL children by focusing on the comprehension and production of subject and object relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin HL children. A cross-sectional design (study 1) and a longitudinal design (study 2) were both included.
Ruiting Jia, Johanne Paradis
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Instructed Heritage Language Acquisition
2021Melissa A. Bowles, Julio Torres
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