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Third language acquisition: Age, proficiency and multilingualism [PDF]
, 2020 This book deals with the phenomenon of third language (L3) acquisition. As a research field, L3 acquisition is established as a branch of multilingualism that is concerned with how multilinguals learn additional languages and the role that their ...
Gudmundson, Anna +9 more
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Current Issues in Heritage Language Acquisition
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2010 An increasing trend in many postsecondary foreign language classes in North America is the presence of heritage language learners. Heritage language learners are speakers of ethnolinguistically minority languages who were exposed to the language in the family since childhood and as adults wish to learn, relearn, or improve their current level of ...
Silvina Montrul
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Introduction to the Special Issue Linguistic Practices in Heritage Language Acquisition
LanguagesLinguistic practices in heritage language (HL) acquisition refer to the ways in which language is used, managed, and passed on within families, communities, or institutions to help children, adolescents, and young adults learn and maintain it [...]
Ekaterina Protassova, Maria Yelenevskaya
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Intersections between heritage, multilingualism, and education: language acquisition in India
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceIndia is a profoundly diverse nation-state where constitutional provisions for two official and 22 Scheduled languages overlay a vast substratum of numerous Non-Scheduled languages and over a thousand distinct mother tongues, creating a rich and layered ...
Vaijayanthi M. Sarma
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Languages, 2019 This exploratory study investigates the knowledge of word order in intransitive sentences by heritage speakers of Spanish of different age groups: 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds and adults. In doing so, we aim to fill a gap in the heritage language literature,
Brechje van Osch +4 more
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Portuguese as Heritage Language in Germany—A Linguistic Perspective
Languages, 2021 This article provides a comprehensive overview of the contribution of linguistic research on Portuguese as a heritage language in Germany to the general understanding of heritage language development. From 1955 to 1973, nearly 166,000 Portuguese migrants
Esther Rinke, Cristina Flores
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Studies in Italian as a heritage language
, 2023 The book is dedicated to the linguistic, psycholinguistic, and ethnolinguistic dimensions of Italian as a heritage language spoken by minorities in the Americas and Europe.
Romano, Francesco, +2 more
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Imperatives in Heritage Spanish: Lexical Access and Lexical Frequency Effects
Languages, 2023 Along with declaratives and interrogatives, imperatives are one of the three major clause types of human language. In Spanish, imperative verb forms present poor morphology, yet complex syntax.
Julio César López Otero
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Englisia, 2013 Language shift is a notion on the change in the use of a person’s heritage language that results in a loss of that person’s ability to use his or her heritage language.Likewise, cultural shift is a change in participating in one’s heritage culture that ...
Muna Muhammad
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Languages, 2022 In heritage language acquisition studies, it has been observed that heritage speakers may experience a shift of language dominance from the heritage language to the majority language due to input quantity and quality factors.
Laia Arnaus Gil, Amelia Jiménez-Gaspar
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