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Heritage Speakers as Part of the Native Language Continuum [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 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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Deconstructing the Native Speaker: Further Evidence From Heritage Speakers for Why This Horse Should Be Dead! [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 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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Eyetracking evidence for heritage speakers’ access to abstract syntactic agreement features in real-time processing [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 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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Vulnerability in processing definiteness: The case of heritage Turkish
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 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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Keeping a Critical Eye on Majority Language Influence: The Case of Uptalk in Heritage Spanish
Languages, 2021 The goal of this study is to highlight the importance of taking into account variations in monolingual grammars before discussing majority language influence as a possible source of heritage speakers’ divergent grammars.
Ji Young Kim, Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura
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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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