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The interpretation of syntactically unconstrained anaphors in Turkish heritage speakers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Previous work has shown that heritage grammars are often simplified compared to their monolingual counterparts, especially in domains in which the societally-dominant language makes fewer distinctions than the heritage language.
Martina Gračanin-Yuksek   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Racial gaps without racism: How English universities frame inequality in access and participation plans

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Racial inequalities are pervasive in higher education despite concerted efforts to redress issues of access, progression and continuation. Little attention has been paid to how universities themselves construct race within their policy texts.
Benjamin Hart, Mirna Šumatić
wiley   +1 more source

Predictive processing in adult heritage speakers [PDF]

open access: yes
This project investigates (1) to what extent adult Turkish heritage speakers and Turkish monolingual adults use case-marking cues to predict the upcoming noun during online sentence comprehension (2) to what extent spoken and written language experience ...
Falk Huettig   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

The doctoral journey as decolonial praxis: Self‐formation of Global South students in UK higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous research concerning Global South doctoral students in the United Kingdom has mainly situated their experiences within adaptationist paradigms, emphasising cultural adjustment and assimilation into Western academic norms. Such studies often depict students as passive recipients, overlooking their agency and the transformative potential
Peng Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Determiners in the Processing of Gender Agreement Morphology by Heritage Speakers of Spanish

open access: yesLanguages
This eye-tracking study examined how heritage speakers of Spanish process gender agreement morphology at a distance, focusing on the activation of the gender feature during sentence processing.
Danny Melendez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Morphological Bottleneck: The Case of Russian Heritage Speakers

open access: yesJournal of Language Contact, 2018
The Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008) assumes functional morphology to be a particular challenge in second language (L2) acquisition whereas acquisition of syntax and semantics to be unproblematic. I propose, following Polinsky (2011), that functional morphology can be seen as an acquisitional bottleneck for heritage language (hl) speakers as ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Unbalanced bilingualism: the case of heritage speakers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
In the realm of bilingualism there is an extremely wide spectrum of diversity. The present work sets out to describe a particular case of unbalanced bilingualism: that of heritage speakers.
De Paoli, Micol
core  

Powerful transformations: The experiences of higher education teaching staff who were first‐generation university students

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Historically, a university education has been seen primarily as a route for the middle classes to achieve professional qualifications while structural barriers have served to restrict entry to individuals from particular demographics. First‐generation students (FGS), often with low socio‐economic backgrounds, face multiple barriers to Higher ...
Helen Williams, Ellen‐Alyssa Gambles
wiley   +1 more source

Discourse Construction Mechanisms: An Eye-Tracking Study on L1, L2, and Heritage Speakers of Spanish

open access: yesLanguages
This study explores the cognitive processing of discourse construction mechanisms in Spanish, focusing on counter-argumentative relations that involve anaphoric encapsulation through either pronominal (e.g., a pesar de ello) or lexical forms (e.g., a ...
Adriana Cruz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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