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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 ...
Natalia Gagarina +2 more
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Linguistic Creativity in Heritage Speakers
Glossa, 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
Anastasia Vyrenkova +2 more
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Phonetic and Lexical Encoding of Tone in Cantonese Heritage Speakers [PDF]
Language and Speech, 2023 Heritage speakers contend with at least two languages: the less dominant first language (L1), that is, the heritage language, and the more dominant second language (L2). In some cases, their L1 and L2 bear striking phonological differences. In the current study, we investigate Toronto-born Cantonese heritage speakers and their maintenance of Cantonese ...
Philip Monahan, Rachel Soo
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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.
Shanley Allen, Rosemarie Tracy
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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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Constraints on novel word learning in heritage speakers. [PDF]
Front PsycholRecent research on word learning has found that adults can rapidly learn novel words by tracking cross-situational statistics, but learning is greatly influenced by the phonological properties of the words and by the native language of the speakers. Mandarin-native speakers could easily pick up novel words with Mandarin tones after a short exposure ...
Ge Y, Rato A, Rebuschat P, Monaghan P.
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Young Speakers of a Heritage Language: Hakka Speakers in Vienna
Journal of Modern LanguagesIncreased 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
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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Why not heritage speakers? [PDF]
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2011 Linguistics
Montrul, Silvina, Polinsky, Maria
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