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Toward an understanding of heritage prosody [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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
core   +1 more source

The Development of Subject Position in Dutch-Dominant Heritage Speakers of Spanish: From Age 9 to Adulthood

open access: yesLanguages, 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Plural Indefinite Article in Heritage Greek: The Role of Register

open access: yesLanguages, 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Comprehension of Tense–Aspect Morphology by Spanish Heritage Speakers in the United Kingdom

open access: yesLanguages, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Morphological processing in heritage speakers

open access: yes, 2020
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
core   +1 more source

Raspberry, not a car: Context predictability and a phonological advantage in early and late learners’ processing of speech in noise

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Interdental Fricative Production in Dutch Heritage Language Speakers Living in Canada

open access: yesIlha 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
doaj   +1 more source

Spanish heritage speakers’ processing of lexical stress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
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
core   +1 more source

Auditory Processing of Gender Agreement across Relative Clauses by Spanish Heritage Speakers

open access: yesLanguages, 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Late(r) Bird Gets the Verb? Effects of Age of Acquisition of English on Adult Heritage Speakers’ Knowledge of Subjunctive Mood in Spanish

open access: yesLanguages, 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
doaj   +1 more source

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