What returnee bilinguals continue to teach us
Embracing a dynamic and linguistically grounded perspective on bilingual language development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21201965 |
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| Authors | Cristina Maria Moreira Flores (0000-0001-5629-9556, University of Minho), Neal Snape (0000-0002-5792-6088, Gunma Prefectural Women's University) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 94-100 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1879-9264 • E-ISSN: 1879-9272 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/lab.25108.flo |
| OpenAlex | W4416790851 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Hearing Impairment and Communication · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Universal Grammar, statistics or both?
Turning to returnees
Who qualifies as ‘returnee’, and can one be truly cut off from a former societal language upon return
Individual language experience determinants of morphosyntactic variation in heritage and attriting speakers of Bosnian and Serbian
The other side of the coin
What can only returnees teach us about language
Continuities and discontinuities in L2 exposure among returnees
A dynamic model of fluctuation and re‐stabilization
International migration and linguistic vicissitudes
Emergentism meets attrition
Age effects in “returnee” bilingualism
Problematizing the notion of “stabilization”
What returnee international adoptees may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation
About the complexity of the study of complex realities
The other side of the coin matters too
What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation
Bilingual Alignments
| Highly cited | No |
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