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
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
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
Perspective-Taking With Deictic Motion Verbs in Spanish: What We Learn About Semantics and the Lexicon From Heritage Child Speakers and Adults
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.611228
Abstract: In English, deictic verbs of motion, such as come can encode the perspective of the speaker, or another individual, such as the addressee or a narrative protagonist, at a salient reference time and location, in… read more here.
Keywords: heritage; motion verbs; heritage speakers; perspective taking ... See more keywords
Deconstructing the Native Speaker: Further Evidence From Heritage Speakers for Why This Horse Should Be Dead!
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717352
Abstract: The category “native speaker” is flawed because it fails to consider the diversity between the speaker groups falling under its scope, as highlighted in previous literature. This paper provides further evidence by focusing on the… read more here.
Keywords: heritage; heritage speakers; speaker; native speakers ... See more keywords
Heritage Speakers as Part of the Native Language Continuum
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717973
Abstract: We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their languages and present results from a large-scale, cross-linguistic study that took such a perspective and approached bilinguals and monolinguals on… read more here.
Keywords: monolingual speakers; language; heritage speakers; continuum ... See more keywords
Keeping a Critical Eye on Majority Language Influence: The Case of Uptalk in Heritage Spanish
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DOI: 10.3390/languages6010013
Abstract: The goal of this study is to highlight the importance of taking into account variations in monolingual grammars before discussing majority language influence as a possible source of heritage speakers’ divergent grammars. In this study,… read more here.
Keywords: heritage speakers; majority language; language influence; heritage ... See more keywords