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Dungаn heritage learners’ Chinese acquisition in multilingual Central Asia
БМУ жарчысыDungan learners in Central Asia constitute a distinctive group in Chinese acquisition because they combine historical links with Chinese dialects, Cyrillic-based literacy, and long-term multilingual contact.
Y. Lai
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LanguagesHeritage speakers’ language acquisition is a complex process that is affected by linguistic, social, cultural, and affective factors. Studies on heritage speakers (HSs) have primarily focused on challenges HSs face in the classroom and scarcely ...
Abdulrahman Almalki +3 more
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, 2021 Includes bibliographical references.The comparative investigation of the acquisition of gender in Spanish by early and late bilinguals of different language combinations is highly debated and crucial as the phenomenon of gender involves grammatical ...
Diebowski Jessica
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PLoS ONEBackgroundLittle is known about the factors affecting children's language acquisition in transcultural situations and how clinicians can take these children's specific needs into account.ObjectivesTo better understand the acquisition of bilingualism by ...
Caroline Barry +7 more
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Parental Language Mixing in Montreal: Rates, Predictors, and Relation to Infants’ Vocabulary Size
Behavioral SciencesLanguage mixing is a common feature of bilingual communication, yet its predictors and effects on children’s vocabulary development remain debated. Most research has been conducted in contexts with clear societal and heritage languages, leaving open ...
Alexandra Paquette +1 more
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The Role of Literacy in Heritage Language Acquisition
The paper focuses on the role of literacy in Heritage Language Acquisition (HLA). Heritage bilinguals, who acquire their heritage language in the hoe environment, are usually schooled in the language of the local majority. Studies show that literacy development through schooling plays a crucial role in later language development for monolingual ...
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SYNTAX IN HERITAGE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: THE VIEW FROM ROMANIAN
BUCHAREST WORKING PAPERS IN LINGUISTICSA heritage language, also known as “family language”, “home language”, or “native language”, represents a minority language acquired through naturalistic exposure within the home, but in a context where a different language is the majority societal language (Rothman 2009, Montrul 2008, 2016, 2022a, b, 2023, Benmamoun et al.
Anamaria Bentea, Elena Soare
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On the Early Acquisition of (Null) Subjects in Catalan as a Heritage Language
Romanica CracoviensiaLanguages vary as to whether subjects must be overtly expressed. Much research has focused on how this phenomenon is acquired by monolingual and simultaneous bilingual children. For the latter, numerous studies have examined the acquisition of (null) subjects in Romance-English bilingual children.
Laia Arnaus Gil, Amelia Jiménez-Gaspar
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How Parents’ Perceived Value of the Heritage Language Predicts Their Children’s Skills
LanguagesThe growing field of family language policies (FLPs), defined as overt and explicit planning in relation to language use among family members, has garnered increasing interest.
Martina Cangelosi +2 more
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Heritage bilingualism and the acquisition of English as a third language
, 2020 This PhD thesis investigates patterns of crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in the acquisition of English as a third language (L3) across two grammatical domains, namely perceived global accent (phonetics/phonology) and embedded wh-questions (syntax). We examine 21 adult-aged early bilingual speakers in their three languages, namely Italian (the heritage ...
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