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Heritage speaker pragmatics

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2023
Abstract The current study investigated request production in Russian as a Heritage language (HL), with a special focus on the role of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) of the majority societal language (here SL-Hebrew) and Age of Onset of Bilingualism (AOB). Ninety-seven adult participants were recruited
Marina Avramenko, Natalia Meir
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Disfluencies in Turkish heritage speakers

2020
Previous studies have shown that heritage speakers (HSs) usually attain monolingual-like knowledge in their heritage language (HL) except for occasional non-canonical phenomena in some domains including morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonetics and phonology and interfaces.
Gülsen Yılmaz, Onur Özsoy
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When heritage speakers study in their heritage countries

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education
Abstract With a well-established bedrock of literature exploring the benefits of study abroad (SA) in second/foreign/additional language learning contexts (e.g., Anderson et al., 2006 ; Smith & Mitry, 2008 ;
Paola Guerrero-Rodriguez, Diego Pascual y Cabo, Josh Prada   +2 more
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How “Native” Are Heritage Speakers?

Heritage Language Journal, 2013
One 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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Heritage speakers in Switzerland

AILA Review
Abstract 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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Spanish heritage speakers in the Southwest

Spanish in Context, 2009
Several 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, 2014
Heritage 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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On Heritage Speakers as Native Speakers

2022
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Development of Vowel Intrusion in Spanish Heritage Speakers

Language and Speech
This study investigates the sound system of heritage speakers (henceforth, HSs) as they shift dominance from their heritage language to their majority language. Specifically, it analyzes the production of intrusive vowels in Spanish consonant clusters across the lifespan of HSs, focusing on tautosyllabic clusters (i.e., /Cɾ/) and heterosyllabic ...
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Heritage Speakers as L3 Acquirers

2023
Anika Lloyd-Smith, Tanja Kupisch
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