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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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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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Heritage Spanish Speakers (Back) in Mexico
Spanish as a Heritage Language, 2021Children who have learned to speak Spanish at home, have had some or all of their schooling in English, and who go (back) to the homeland of their family—in this case, Mexico—are a type of heritage speaker. Informed by a decade-long, qualitative research study based in Mexico, I discuss the educational trajectories of such students in order to identify
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Foreign language acquisition in heritage speakers
2013L3 acquisition has been a topic of increasing interest throughout the past decade. Nevertheless, linguistically-oriented work has so far paid little attention to the acquisition of foreign languages by second generation minority (or heritage) speakers, who have acquired two languages in early childhood.
Tanja Kupisch, Neal Snape, Ilse Stangen
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Grammatical knowledge of Korean heritage speakers
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2011This paper examines the effects of onset age of exposure to a dominant language (English) with respect to Korean heritage speakers’ knowledge of unaccusativity involving quantifier float. In an attempt to see how the acquisition of heritage grammar is affected by this factor, the present study compares two groups of heritage speakers: early (US-born, n
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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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Teaching pronunciation to Spanish heritage speakers
2019This chapter first describes heritage speakers in general, providing information about how they acquired the Spanish language and how this exposure might help shape their phonetic/phonological system. It then provides a brief description of current research on the production and perception of Spanish sounds by heritage speakers, followed by some ...
Amanda Boomershine, Rebecca Ronquest
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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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Heritage speaker children’s speech categorization patterns
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of AmericaBi-/multilingual experiences vary widely due to differing degrees of input frequency, dominancy in languages, and societal preferences for the language(s) used. Heritage bilingualism has received notable attention over the last decade. Heritage bilinguals are those who often use or are exposed to one language at home (the heritage language) that ...
Ethan Kutlu +4 more
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