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Production and comprehension of grammatical gender by Spanish heritage speakers: Evidence from accusative clitic pronouns

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2022
Objectives: This study investigates (a) the accuracy of Heritage Speakers (HSs) in production and comprehension of Spanish clitic pronouns when compared to monolingual children, (b) the differences in error patterns between groups, and (c) the possible ...
Lourdes Martinez-Nieto, Maria Adelaida Restrepo   +1 more
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Child heritage speakers’ acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in volitional and adverbial clauses

Language Acquisition, 2022
The Spanish subjunctive mood (SUBJ) is said to be highly vulnerable in heritage language (HL) acquisition. However, there is little controlled research on HL-speaking children acquiring the various Spanish SUBJ contexts, so we do not have a clear picture
Melisa Dracos, Pablo E. Requena
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Está abriendo, la abrió: Lexical knowledge, verb type, and grammatical aspect shape child heritage speakers’ direct object omission in Spanish

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2022
Objectives: This study investigates the influence of lexical knowledge, progressive aspect, and verb type on bilingual children’s direct object expression in Spanish. Methodology: Sixty-one child heritage speakers of Spanish, ages 3;3-8;8, and 10 Spanish-
Naomi L. Shin
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The use of periphrasis for the expression of aspect by Greek heritage speakers

Register Studies, 2022
In this paper, we examine the narrowing of register variation in the domain of verbal aspect in the production of aspect by two different age groups of Greek heritage speakers (HSs), adolescents and adults, which we compared to their monolingual ...
A. Alexiadou, Vasiliki Rizou
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Teaching humorous irony to L2 and heritage speakers of Spanish

Language Teaching Research, 2022
The present study examined the effect of a pedagogical intervention about humorous verbal irony in Spanish with a mixed group of 40 second language (L2) and heritage speakers of Spanish.
Rachel L. Shively, J. Acevedo, R. Cano, Izadi Etxeberria-Ortego   +3 more
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Syntactic Optionality in Heritage Language Use: Clause Type Preferences of German Heritage Speakers in a Majority English Context

Heritage Language Journal, 2022
This study focuses on the syntactic and pragmatic resources heritage speakers (HS s) use to structure their discourse according to register. Drawing on a corpus of narratives produced by German HS s living in the United States, as well as by ...
T. Pashkova, Wintai Tsehaye, S. Allen, R. Tracy   +3 more
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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, Özsoy, Onur
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The Use of Pronoun Interpretation Biases in L1 Spanish: The Role of Language Proficiency, Exposure, and Use in Heritage Speakers

Heritage Language Journal
In an offline sentence comprehension task, we test the interpretation biases for null and overt pronouns and anaphoric and cataphoric pronouns in heritage speakers (HSs) whose first language (L1) is Spanish (L2 English). Previous studies have shown that
Carla Contemori, Sabrina Mossman, Alma L. Armendariz Galaviz   +2 more
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Grammatical gender in Spanish child heritage speakers

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2021
This study examines grammatical gender (GG) production in young Spanish heritage-speakers (HSs) and the potential effect of the children’s language use and their parents’ input. We compared four and eight-year-old HSs to same-age monolingual children
Lourdes Martinez-Nieto, M. Restrepo
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Object clitic use and intuition in the Spanish of heritage speakers from Brazil

Second Language Research, 2021
The present study examines the production and intuition of Spanish clitics in clitic left dislocation (CLLD) structures among 26 Spanish heritage speakers (HSs) born and raised in Brazil.
Julio César López Otero, Alejandro Cuza, Jian Jiao   +2 more
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