Why not heritage speakers? [PDF]
Linguistics ; Accepted ...
Montrul, Silvina, Polinsky, Maria
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Eyetracking evidence for heritage speakers’ access to abstract syntactic agreement features in real-time processing [PDF]
This paper presents the results of an eyetracking study that uses the Visual World Paradigm to determine whether heritage speakers of Polish can use grammatical gender cues to facilitate lexical retrieval of the subsequent noun during real time ...
Zuzanna Fuchs
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Bestimmung des Sprachstands in einer Herkunftssprache: Ein Vergleich verschiedener Testverfahren am Beispiel des Polnischen als Herkunftssprache in Deutschland. Determining proficiency in a heritage language: A comparison of different testing methods based on Polish as a heritage language in Germany [PDF]
The paper discusses several methods of evaluating heritage speakers’ abilities in their heritage language. Speech rate in spontaneous text production, lexical knowledge and grammatical proficiency in the heritage language have been found to correlate ...
Bernhard Brehmer
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Heritage Speakers as Part of the Native Language Continuum [PDF]
We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their languages and present results from a large-scale, cross-linguistic study that took such a perspective and approached bilinguals and monolinguals on equal grounds ...
Heike Wiese +17 more
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Linguistic Creativity in Heritage Speakers
This paper presents and analyzes lexical and syntactic evidence from heritage Russian as spoken by bilinguals dominant in American English. The data come from the Russian Learner Corpus, a new resource of spoken and written materials produced by heritage
Anastasia Vyrenkova +2 more
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Deconstructing the Native Speaker: Further Evidence From Heritage Speakers for Why This Horse Should Be Dead! [PDF]
The category “native speaker” is flawed because it fails to consider the diversity between the speaker groups falling under its scope, as highlighted in previous literature.
Wintai Tsehaye +3 more
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Heritage languages and their speakers: Opportunities and challenges for linguistics [PDF]
In this paper, we bring to the attention of the linguistic community recent research on heritage languages. Shifting linguistic attention from the model of a monolingual speaker to the model of a multilingual speaker is important for the advancement of ...
Elabbas Benmamoun +2 more
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Young Speakers of a Heritage Language: Hakka Speakers in Vienna
Increased global migratory mobility lead to ‘superdiverse’ societies especially in urban agglomerations, with many family languages. Overseas Chinese, frequently in a secondary migration, reached European countries and established their own close-knit ...
Ralf Vollmann, Tek Wooi Soon
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Vulnerability in processing definiteness: The case of heritage Turkish
Definiteness has been argued to be difficult for language learners to acquire because the correct usage of definiteness requires the integration of external interfaces that involve linguistic and non-linguistic information.
Serkan Uygun
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