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Morphological processing in heritage speakers
2021Previous research has shown that heritage speakers struggle with inflectional morphology. 'Limitations of online resources' for processing a non-dominant language has been claimed as one possible reason for these difficulties. To date, however, there is very little experimental evidence on real-time language processing in heritage speakers.
Uygun, Serkan (Dr.) +1 more
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Teaching Persian to Heritage Speakers
Iranian Studies, 2010Although Persian language instruction has been facing demand outside Iran, little research has been conducted and few findings are available on teaching Persian to heritage speakers. This work studies teaching Persian language to students with a Persian background or second-generation Persians who have been raised outside Iran.
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Heritage speakers in Switzerland
AILA ReviewAbstract Switzerland is often praised for its multilingualism; however, this reputation conceals a complex paradox characterized by both pride in and apprehension towards multilingualism. This ambivalence arises from various unresolved contradictions, such as institutional and/or national language ...
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How “Native” Are Heritage Speakers?
Heritage Language Journal, 2013One of the chief characteristics of heritage speakers is that they range in proficiency from “overhearers” to “native” speakers. To date, the vast majority of linguistic and psycholinguistic studies have characterized the non-target-like linguistic abilities of heritage speakers as a product of incomplete acquisition and/or attrition ...
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Spanish heritage speakers in the Southwest
Spanish in Context, 2009Several studies have looked into the different uses of indicative and subjunctive in the Spanish of heritage speakers. Generally speaking, research seems to show that mood simplification is taking place in heritage speakers’ Spanish. Mood and modal alternation is of particular interest to research on language change and contact due to the wide ...
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Race in Conflict With Heritage: “Black” Heritage Language Speaker of Japanese
International Multilingual Research Journal, 2014Heritage language speaker is a relatively new term to denote minority language speakers who grew up in a household where the language was used or those who have a family, ancestral, or racial connection to the minority language. In research on heritage language speakers, overlap between these 2 definitions is often assumed—that is, there has been ...
Neriko Musha Doerr, Yuri Kumagai
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Heritage Speakers, FLP and Emotional Challenges
2020This chapter presents the sociolinguistic context in which members of the multilingual family interact and establish language patterns. It describes and analyses the concept of Family Language Policy (FLP) and examines the traditional focus of FLP research on children’s bilingual proficiency development through particular parental strategies.
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Preserved morphological processing in heritage speakers
2018In a masked morphological priming experiment, we compared the processing of derived and inflected morphologically complex Turkish words in heritage speakers of Turkish living in Berlin and in native speakers of Turkish raised and living in Turkey. The results show significant derivational and inflectional priming effects of a similar magnitude in the ...
Jacob, Gunnar (Dr. phil.) +3 more
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