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Predictors of language proficiency and cultural identification in heritage bilinguals
Frontiers 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
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Languages, 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
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A Preliminary Exploration of Declarative Intonation in the Chilean Diaspora of Sweden
Languages, 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
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Languages, 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
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Imperatives in Heritage Spanish: Lexical Access and Lexical Frequency Effects
Languages, 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
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Case marking is different in monolingual and heritage Bosnian in digitally elicited oral texts
Frontiers 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
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What is the source of L1 attrition? The effect of recent L1 re-exposure on Spanish speakers under L1 attrition [PDF]
, 2015 The recent hypothesis that L1 attrition affects the ability to process interface structures but not knowledge representations (Sorace, 2011) is tested by investigating the effects of recent L1 re-exposure on antecedent preferences for Spanish pronominal ...
Sturt, Patrick +2 more
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A Plural Indefinite Article in Heritage Greek: The Role of Register
Languages, 2022 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
Languages, 2020 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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 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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