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Languages, 2022 The present study examines the extent of crosslinguistic influence from English as a dominant language in the perception of the Korean lenis–aspirated contrast among Korean heritage speakers in the United States (N = 20) and English-speaking learners of ...
Yuhyeon Seo +2 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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Languages, 2021 This study set out to investigate whether US Heritage Spanish features a more streamlined verbal paradigm in psych verb constructions compared to standard varieties of Spanish, where HS speakers find an invariable third-person singular form acceptable ...
Viola G. Miglio, Stefan Th. Gries
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A Preliminary Exploration of Declarative Intonation in the Chilean Diaspora of Sweden
Languages, 2023 Motivated by a growing body of research on heritage Spanish prosody, the current study uses the Sp_ToBi framework for the transcription of Spanish intonation to report trends in phonological targets of broad focus declaratives produced by heritage ...
Brianna Butera +2 more
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Languages, 2021 Apocope (deletion of word-final vowels) and word-final vowel reduction are hallmarks of southern Italian varieties. To investigate whether heritage speakers reproduce the complex variable patterns of these processes, we analyze spontaneous speech of ...
Anissa Baird +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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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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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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A Plural Indefinite Article in Heritage Greek: The Role of Register
Languages, 2022 This paper investigates the use of kati “some” by Greek Heritage Speakers (HSs) in comparison to monolinguals. While all Greek determiners are marked for gender, case, and number, and agree with their nominal complement, kati is an exception, as it lacks
Artemis Alexiadou +2 more
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Heritage Languages: In the 'Wild' and in the Classroom [PDF]
, 2009 Heritage speakers are people raised in a home where one language is spoken who subsequently switch to another dominant language. The version of the home language that they have not completely acquired – heritage language – has only recently been given ...
Kagan, Olga, Polinsky, Maria
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