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Toward an understanding of heritage prosody [PDF]
In previous work examining heritage language phonology, heritage speakers have often patterned differently from native speakers and late-onset second language (L2) learners with respect to overall accent and segmentals.
Yao, Yao +2 more
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This exploratory study investigates the knowledge of word order in intransitive sentences by heritage speakers of Spanish of different age groups: 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds and adults. In doing so, we aim to fill a gap in the heritage language literature,
Brechje van Osch +4 more
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A Plural Indefinite Article in Heritage Greek: The Role of Register
This paper investigates the use of kati “some” by Greek Heritage Speakers (HSs) in comparison to monolinguals. While all Greek determiners are marked for gender, case, and number, and agree with their nominal complement, kati is an exception, as it lacks
Artemis Alexiadou +2 more
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The Comprehension of Tense–Aspect Morphology by Spanish Heritage Speakers in the United Kingdom
Whilst heritage Spanish has been widely examined in the USA, less is known about the acquisition of Spanish in other English-dominant contexts such as the UK, and studies rarely assess the baseline grammar that heritage speakers are exposed to directly ...
James Corbet, Laura Domínguez
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Morphological processing in heritage speakers
Previous 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.
Uygun, Serkan (Dr.) +3 more
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Second language learners perform worse than native speakers under adverse listening conditions, such as speech in noise. No data are available on heritage language speakers’ (early naturalistic interrupted learners’) ability to perceive speech in noise ...
Kira eGor
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Interdental Fricative Production in Dutch Heritage Language Speakers Living in Canada
This study investigates the production of / ? / and / ð / by three groups of English speakers in the community of Norwich, Ontario, Canada. English monolinguals, Heritage Dutch speakers, and late-learning Dutch L1 English speakers / ?
Sarah Cornwell, Yasaman Rafat
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Spanish heritage speakers’ processing of lexical stress [PDF]
This study examines the status of lexical stress in the processing system of heritage speakers of Spanish and whether or not it is influenced by their experience with English. Participants completed an ABX matching task with auditory stimuli differing in
Ortín, Ramsés, Ramsés Ortín
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Auditory Processing of Gender Agreement across Relative Clauses by Spanish Heritage Speakers
Processing research on Spanish gender agreement has focused on L2 learners’ and—to a lesser extent—heritage speakers’ sensitivity to gender agreement violations.
Daniel Vergara, Gilda Socarrás
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Many previous studies have found that adult heritage speakers exhibit significant variability in their production and comprehension of mood morphology in Spanish.
David Giancaspro
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