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French as a Heritage Language in Germany

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Research on child heritage speakers (HSs) has shown successful language acquisition, comparable to monolinguals, whereas research on adult HSs often claims incomplete acquisition. This seems to be an evident contradiction in the current state of research,
Johanna Stahnke   +2 more
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Variation of Relative Complementizers in Yucatecan Spanish: A Comparison of Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
The starting point of this article is the occurrence of determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers like (en) que, ‘(in) that’, instead of (en) el que, ‘(in) which’, in Yucatecan Spanish (southeast Mexico).
Patrick Auhagen, Melanie Uth
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Understanding High Performance in Late Second Language (L2) Acquisition—What Is the Secret? A Contrasting Case Study in L2 French

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Adult L2 acquisition has often been framed within research on the Critical Period Hypothesis, and the age factor is one of the most researched topics of SLA. However, several researchers suggest that while age is the most important factor for differences
Fanny Forsberg Lundell, Klara Arvidsson
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La motivación de los alumnos polacos para el aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera

open access: yesStudia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2016
Over the past several years the number of students learning Spanish as a foreign language has doubled in Poland. The present article is an attempt at answering the following questions: Why is Spanish so popular in Polish schools and what are the reasons ...
Małgorzata Spychała-Wawrzyniak   +1 more
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Acquiring French Intonation against the Backdrop of Heritage Bilingualism: The Case of German–Turkish Learners

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
This paper investigates the intonation of L3 French, produced by six bilingual learners (ages: 15–17) who speak Turkish as a heritage language (HL) along with German and six same-aged monolingual German learners. We examined of a corpus of read speech in
Jonas Grünke, Christoph Gabriel
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Home and School Language Practices and Their Effects on Heritage Language Acquisition: A View from Heritage Italians in Germany

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
This paper intends to provide some speculative remarks on how consistency and continuity in language use practices within and across contexts inform heritage language acquisition outcomes.
Irene Caloi, Jacopo Torregrossa
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On the Localization of the Personalized PageRank of Complex Networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this paper new results on personalized PageRank are shown. We consider directed graphs that may contain dangling nodes. The main result presented gives an analytical characterization of all the possible values of the personalized PageRank for any node.
Garcia, Esther   +2 more
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On the presence and absence of definite articles with anthroponyms in rural varieties of Madeiran Portuguese

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2023
European Portuguese (EP) generally manifests a systematic use of the definite article with anthroponyms in communicative immediacy (in the sense of Koch & Oesterreicher, 1986). In Brazilian Portuguese (BP), there is a well-documented variation in the
Yoselin Henriques Pestana
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Quo Vadis: el español y el Hispanismo en Sudáfrica

open access: yesArbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2001
Nuestro objetivo en este ensayo es presentar la situación del español y del hispanismo en el complejo mundo que ha sido y sigue siendo Sudáfrica. Con el fin de entender el papel que desempeña el español en el África austral, se traza la historia socio ...
Cathy Maree, Carmen Sánchez Martín
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ADVERBIALS WITH ADJECTIVAL BASIS IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE AND THEIR FREQUENCY IN SPOKEN AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2020
Adverbials with Adjectival Basis in Brazilian Portuguese and Their Frequency in Spoken and Written Language. The present paper focuses on the use of adverbs with an adjectival lexical base in spoken and written present-day Brazilian Portuguese.
Katharina GERHALTER, Stefan KOCH
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