Beyond accuracy: Heritage speakers’ performance on two kinds of acceptability judgment tasks
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DOI: 10.1017/s0142716418000760
Abstract: Abstract This article examines the performance of heritage speakers (HSs) on two types of acceptability judgment tasks (AJTs) as well as their corresponding confidence ratings. Data were collected from 75 native speakers of Spanish who… read more here.
Keywords: performance; judgment tasks; acceptability judgment; heritage speakers ... See more keywords
Resilience and vulnerability of discourse-conditioned word order in heritage Spanish
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DOI: 10.1017/s0142716423000152
Abstract: Heritage speakers—bilinguals who acquire minority languages naturalistically in infancy but are typically majority-language-dominant in adulthood—generally acquire grammars that differ systematically from the baseline input received in childhood. Yet not all areas diverge equally; understanding what… read more here.
Keywords: resilience; discourse conditioned; heritage speakers; word ... See more keywords
The transmission of Spanish as a heritage language in Australia
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DOI: 10.1075/aral.23039.her
Abstract: Although the terms ‘heritage speakers’ and ‘heritage languages’ are relatively new, the phenomena themselves date back to the beginning of migration. In many situations heritage languages do not survive these changes, but in others they… read more here.
Keywords: heritage language; spanish heritage; heritage; heritage speakers ... See more keywords
‘Mentor, friend, teacher, and learner’: The beauty, opportunities, and challenges of heritage speakers as heritage language educators
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DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae055
Abstract: The last decade has seen an increased interest in heritage language education (HLE), yet only limited work is guided by in-group scholars and community members who themselves identify as heritage speakers (i.e. individuals with family… read more here.
Keywords: heritage language; heritage speakers; group; language ... See more keywords
Development of Vowel Intrusion in Spanish Heritage Speakers
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DOI: 10.1177/00238309251315068
Abstract: This study investigates the sound system of heritage speakers (henceforth, HSs) as they shift dominance from their heritage language to their majority language. Specifically, it analyzes the production of intrusive vowels in Spanish consonant clusters… read more here.
Keywords: duration; intrusive vowels; heritage; heritage speakers ... See more keywords
Production of Cantonese classifiers in young heritage speakers and majority language speakers
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DOI: 10.1177/1367006918808002
Abstract: Aims and Objectives: This study investigated the production of classifiers in two groups of bilingual speakers: young heritage speakers of Cantonese in the USA and peers in Hong Kong, where Cantonese is the majority language.… read more here.
Keywords: heritage; production; majority language; heritage speakers ... See more keywords
Word order and information structure in heritage and L2 Russian: Focus and unaccusativity effects in subject inversion
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DOI: 10.1177/13670069211063674
Abstract: Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The study’s main objective is to investigate the effects of information structure and verb type on the acceptability of canonical and non-canonical word order patterns in baseline, heritage, and L2 Russian… read more here.
Keywords: heritage; heritage speakers; word order; focus ... See more keywords
Phrasal verb production in child heritage speakers of English residing in Mexico: Chronological age, experience, and protracted development
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DOI: 10.1177/13670069241284518
Abstract: Aims: We investigated the extent to which child heritage speakers of English in contact with Spanish in Mexico accurately produce phrasal verbs, and if not, whether their difficulties are modulated by chronological age, language dominance,… read more here.
Keywords: age; heritage; heritage speakers; mexico ... See more keywords
In the Middle of Somewhere: Cultural Identity and Conflicts of Korean Heritage Speakers in the United States
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DOI: 10.1177/21582440251372731
Abstract: We examine how Korean heritage speakers (KHSs) in the United States, the minority population using Korean at home and English in daily life, understand their cultural identity and conflicts in their adolescence and college periods.… read more here.
Keywords: korean heritage; heritage speakers; identity; cultural identity ... See more keywords
The morphophonological dimensions of Spanish gender marking: NP processing in Spanish bilinguals
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DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1442339
Abstract: The processing literature provides some evidence that heritage Spanish speakers process gender like monolinguals, since gender-marking in definite articles facilitates their lexical access to nouns, albeit these effects may be reduced relative to speakers who… read more here.
Keywords: heritage speakers; gender; speech; language ... See more keywords
Multilingual Competence Influences Answering Strategies in Italian–German Speakers
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01971
Abstract: The present study aims at analyzing the role of nativeness, the amount of input in L1 acquisition and the multilingual competence in the performance of Italian–German bilingual speakers. We compare novel data from the performance… read more here.
Keywords: multilingual competence; heritage speakers; answering strategies; performance ... See more keywords