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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, Ekaterina Rakhilina, Maria Polinsky   +2 more
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College Heritage Language Speakers' Perceptions of Heritage Languages and Identity [PDF]

Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2006
As one of the primary sectors for providing the nation's capacity for less commonly taught languages (LCTLs), the resource of heritage languages needs to be developed and honored (Brecht & Walton, 1994).
Jingjing Qin
doaj   +2 more sources

Majority English of Heritage Speakers [PDF]

This dissertation focuses on heritage speakers - bilinguals who grow up speaking two languages: the language of their family, or the heritage language, and the main language of the larger society, or the majority language.
Pashkova, Tatiana Aleksandrovna
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Teaching Persian to Heritage Speakers

Iranian Studies, 2010
Although 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.
Anousha Sedighi
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Young Speakers of a Heritage Language: Hakka Speakers in Vienna

Journal of Modern Languages
Increased 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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Phonetic and Lexical Encoding of Tone in Cantonese Heritage Speakers. [PDF]

Lang 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 ...
Soo R, Monahan PJ.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Why not heritage speakers? [PDF]

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2011
Linguistics
Montrul, Silvina, Polinsky, Maria
openaire   +3 more sources

Constraints on novel word learning in heritage speakers. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Recent 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.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Imperatives in Heritage Spanish: Lexical Access and Lexical Frequency Effects

Languages, 2023
Along with declaratives and interrogatives, imperatives are one of the three major clause types of human language. In Spanish, imperative verb forms present poor morphology, yet complex syntax.
Julio César López Otero
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Case marking is different in monolingual and heritage Bosnian in digitally elicited oral texts

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
Heritage languages may differ from baseline languages spoken in the home country, particularly in the domains of vocabulary, morphosyntax and phonology.
Ilma Jažić, Natalia Gagarina, Alexandra Perovic   +2 more
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