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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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Languages, 2019 This exploratory study investigates the knowledge of word order in intransitive sentences by heritage speakers of Spanish of different age groups: 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds and adults. In doing so, we aim to fill a gap in the heritage language literature,
Brechje van Osch +4 more
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Majority English of heritage speakers [PDF]
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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Languages, 2019 Many previous studies have found that adult heritage speakers exhibit significant variability in their production and comprehension of mood morphology in Spanish.
David Giancaspro
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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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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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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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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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