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Noun canonicity in heritage speakers and monolingual speakers of Spanish

open access: yesELUA, 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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Preposition Stranding in Heritage Speakers of Spanish

open access: yes, 2013
In this research, we explore the linguistic structure of the Spanish of Heritage Speakers, those who have acquired Spanish as the home language in a minority language context (Iverson, 2010).
Depiante, Marcela, Thompson, Ellen
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Bestimmung des Sprachstands in einer Herkunftssprache: Ein Vergleich verschiedener Testverfahren am Beispiel des Polnischen als Herkunftssprache in Deutschland. Determining proficiency in a heritage language: A comparison of different testing methods based on Polish as a heritage language in Germany

open access: yesGlottodidactica, 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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Use of Embedded Clauses in Heritage and Monolingual Russian

open access: yesLanguages
This study investigates the production of clausal embeddings by 195 Russian speakers (67 monolingually raised speakers, 68 heritage speakers in the US, and 60 heritage speakers in Germany) in different communicative situations varying by formality ...
Maria Martynova   +3 more
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Verbal working memory assessment in Russian-Brazilian Portuguese bilinguals

open access: yesCadernos de Linguística, 2021
In Brazil, the learning of a second language (L2) by native Brazilian Portuguese speakers has been extensively explored, but studies on language processing and language interaction among bilinguals are quite recent.
Aleksandra S. Skorobogatova   +4 more
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Focus marking in Dutch by heritage speakers of Turkish and Dutch L1 speakers [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Phonetics, 2017
This study examines whether heritage speakers of Turkish in the Netherlands interpret focus in written Dutch sentences differently from L1 speakers of Dutch (controls). Where most previous studies examined effects from the dominant L2 on the heritage language, we investigated whether there are effects from the weaker heritage language on the dominant ...
van Rijswijk, R.   +3 more
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Assessing Rhotic Production by Bilingual Spanish Speakers

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
Due to its articulatory precision, the Spanish rhotic system is generally acquired in late childhood by monolingually-raised (L1) Spanish speakers. Heritage speakers and second language (L2) learners, unlike L1 speakers, risk an incomplete acquisition of
Laura D. Cummings Ruiz, Silvina Montrul
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An Examination of Social, Phonetic, and Lexical Variables on the Lenition of Intervocalic Voiced Stops by Spanish Heritage Speakers

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
The lenition of Spanish intervocalic voiced stops, commonly grouped as /bdg/, has increasingly been examined within Spanish as a Heritage Language research.
Kaylyn Blair, Sarah Lease
doaj   +1 more source

Phonetic and lexical encoding of tone in Cantonese heritage speakers

open access: yes, 2021
Heritage speakers contend with at least two languages: the less dominant L1 (heritage language), and the more dominant L2. Maintaining the heritage language allows heritage speakers to communicate with members of their community.
Rachel Soo, Philip J. Monahan
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A (single) case for heritage speakers? [PDF]

open access: yesTheoretical Linguistics, 2013
Contains fulltext : 123133.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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