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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.
Shanley E M Allen +2 more
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Why not heritage speakers? [PDF]
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2011 Linguistics ; Accepted ...
Montrul, Silvina, Polinsky, Maria
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Linguistic Creativity in Heritage Speakers
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2016 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 re-learners and L2 learners of Russian.
Rakhilina, Ekaterina +2 more
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A (single) case for heritage speakers? [PDF]
Theoretical Linguistics, 2013 Contains fulltext : 123133.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Focus marking in Dutch by heritage speakers of Turkish and Dutch L1 speakers [PDF]
Journal of Phonetics, 2017 This study examines whether heritage speakers of Turkish in the Netherlands interpret focus in written Dutch sentences differently from L1 speakers of Dutch (controls). Where most previous studies examined effects from the dominant L2 on the heritage language, we investigated whether there are effects from the weaker heritage language on the dominant ...
van Rijswijk, R. +3 more
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Lost in Between: the Case of Russian Heritage Speakers [PDF]
Heritage Language Journal, 2008 The present paper looks at the growing population of Russian heritage speakers from a linguistic and psycholinguistic perspective. The study attempts to clarify further the notion of heritage language by comparing the linguistic performance of heritage speakers with that of monolinguals and second language learners. The amount of exposure to L1/L2, the
Ludmila Isurin, Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan
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Noun canonicity in heritage speakers and monolingual speakers of Spanish
ELUA, 2023 The present investigation examines the role of Spanish noun gender-correlated endings when accessing gender agreement in two different linguistic populations: Spanish-English bilingual heritage speakers and monolingual speakers of Spanish. This study analyzed data from 34 monolingual speakers of Spanish from the Dominican Republic and 44 heritage ...
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Structured variation in child heritage speakers' grammars
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2022 Abstract Research on heritage language development in children can profit greatly by incorporating insights from analyses of structured variation , which is defined as the interchange of linguistic forms where the choice to use one form over the other is probabilistically ...
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Production of Phonetic and Phonological Contrast by Heritage Speakers of Mandarin [PDF]
UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports, 2009 This study tested the hypothesis that heritage speakers of a minority language, due to their childhood experience with two languages, would outperform late learners in producing contrast: language-internal phonological contrast, as well as cross-linguistic phonetic contrast between similar, yet acoustically distinct, categories of different languages ...
Chang, CB, Yao, Y, Haynes, EF, Rhodes, R
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Majority English of heritage speakers
Research on heritage speakers to date has focused largely on their heritage languages. In contrast, while their majority languages have been often examined in young children, less is known about adolescents and adults. Filling this gap, the current chapter presents our research on majority English of adolescent and adult heritage speakers of German ...
Pashkova, Tatiana +4 more
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