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Majority English of heritage speakers [PDF]

open access: yes
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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College Heritage Language Speakers' Perceptions of Heritage Languages and Identity [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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
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Designing Speakers’ Corner [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
How can design interventions foster the use of public space for public debate? What might a twenty-first century speakers’ corner look like? How should the design process ensure that local people can contribute?
Shechter, Shibboleth
core   +4 more sources

Crosslinguistic Influence in the Discrimination of Korean Stop Contrast by Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners

open access: yesLanguages, 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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Predictors of language proficiency and cultural identification in heritage bilinguals

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2022
According to the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau, more than 66 million residents over the age of 5 in the United States speak a language other than English at home.
Sayuri Hayakawa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acceptability of Different Psychological Verbal Constructions by Heritage Spanish Speakers from California

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
This study set out to investigate whether US Heritage Spanish features a more streamlined verbal paradigm in psych verb constructions compared to standard varieties of Spanish, where HS speakers find an invariable third-person singular form acceptable ...
Viola G. Miglio, Stefan Th. Gries
doaj   +1 more source

A Preliminary Exploration of Declarative Intonation in the Chilean Diaspora of Sweden

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
Motivated by a growing body of research on heritage Spanish prosody, the current study uses the Sp_ToBi framework for the transcription of Spanish intonation to report trends in phonological targets of broad focus declaratives produced by heritage ...
Brianna Butera   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Apocope in Heritage Italian

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Apocope (deletion of word-final vowels) and word-final vowel reduction are hallmarks of southern Italian varieties. To investigate whether heritage speakers reproduce the complex variable patterns of these processes, we analyze spontaneous speech of ...
Anissa Baird   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Imperatives in Heritage Spanish: Lexical Access and Lexical Frequency Effects

open access: yesLanguages, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Case marking is different in monolingual and heritage Bosnian in digitally elicited oral texts

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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