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Languages, 2019 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
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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Interdental Fricative Production in Dutch Heritage Language Speakers Living in Canada
Ilha do Desterro, 2017 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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Auditory Processing of Gender Agreement across Relative Clauses by Spanish Heritage Speakers
Languages, 2020 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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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 ...
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Languages, 2019 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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Noun canonicity in heritage speakers and monolingual speakers of Spanish
ELUA, 2023 The present investigation examines the role of Spanish noun gender-correlated endings when accessing gender agreement in two different linguistic populations: Spanish-English bilingual heritage speakers and monolingual speakers of Spanish. This study analyzed data from 34 monolingual speakers of Spanish from the Dominican Republic and 44 heritage ...
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Glottodidactica, 2016 The paper discusses several methods of evaluating heritage speakers’ abilities in their heritage language. Speech rate in spontaneous text production, lexical knowledge and grammatical proficiency in the heritage language have been found to correlate ...
Bernhard Brehmer
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