Heritage language and linguistic theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5790809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Scontras, Zuzanna Fuchs (0000-0002-7254-925X), Maria Polinsky (0000-0003-1460-5089) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1664-1078 • E-ISSN: 1664-1078 |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01545 |
| PMID | 26500595 |
| OpenAlex | W1906957401 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 85 |
| References cited | 84 |
This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers, or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from one language (their heritage language) to their dominant language (the language of their speech community). To demonstrate the relevance of heritage linguistics to the study of linguistic competence more broadly defined, we present a series of case studies on heritage linguistics, documenting some of the deficits and abilities typical of heritage speakers, together with the broader theoretical questions they inform. We consider the reorganization of morphosyntactic feature systems, the reanalysis of atypical argument structure, the attrition of the syntax of relativization, and the simplification of scope interpretations; these phenomena implicate diverging trajectories and outcomes in the development of heritage speakers. The case studies also have practical and methodological implications for the study of multilingualism. We conclude by discussing more general concepts central to linguistic inquiry, in particular, complexity and native speaker competence
Argument (complex analysis · Heritage language · Linguistic competence · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Pairing peers and pears
Un monde commun
Heritage Languages and Their Speakers
Understanding heritage languages
Non-Native English-Speaking Young Adults Experience Difficulties Inferencing the Meaning of Novel Words in Noisy Environments in their Second Language
Family language policy in Russian-Estonian and Russian-Spanish multilingual settings
Adjective ordering in Arabic
Language choice among Chinese-Indonesian children in Palembang City
Lexical production and innovation in child and adult Russian Heritage speakers dominant in English and Hebrew
Heritage grammars as checkpoints in acquisition
Predictors of language proficiency and cultural identification in heritage bilinguals
What modulates the acquisition of difficult structures in a heritage language? A study on Portuguese in contact with French, German and Italian
Switching the majority language
Eye-movement benchmarks in Heritage Language reading
Structure vs. use in heritage language
Selective vulnerability and dominant language transfer in the acquisition of the Chinese cleft construction by heritage speakers
Family language policy and vocabulary of bilingual children across different ages
The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development
Heritage speakers’ processing of the Spanish subjunctive
Straight from the horse’s mouth
Effects of cumulative language exposure on heritage and majority language skills
Constraints on subject-verb agreement marking in Turkish-German bilingual speakers
A case for agreement
Restructuring in heritage grammars
Introduction to the special issue on Heritage languages & Bilingualism
Collocations and near-native competence
Hyper-articulation effects in Korean glides by heritage language learners
Syntactic licensing in heritage Spanish
Task effects and the yes-bias in heritage language bilingualism
Bilingual children and adult heritage speakers
Aspect and tense attrition in Russian-German bilingual speakers
Path and rate of development in child heritage speakers
Task effects and the yes-bias in heritage language bilingualism
Differences in use without deficiencies in competence
Identifying the dialectal background of American Finnish speakers using a supervised machine-learning model
Effects of parental input quality in child heritage language acquisition
Some Morphosyntactic Features of Russian as a Heritage Language in the Speech of Bi/Multilingual Children in Canada
On the Many Dimensions of Complexity in Heritage Languages
The Use of Pronoun Interpretation Biases in L1 Spanish
Multilingual La La Land
New Data on Language Change
The Tale of Two Lexicons
Heritage Speakers’ Production of the Spanish Voiced Palatal Obstruent /ʝ
Swiss French Settlers of Shabo
Over, Under and Around
When gender meets number
First things third? The extension of canonically third-person singular inflections to first-person singular subjects in adult heritage Spanish
Cross-Linguistic Influence in Spanish in Contact with French in Montreal
Tamil Speakers in Switzerland
Investigating Grammatical Aspect Choices in Oral Narratives of Greek Heritage Speakers
Family language policy among Bangladeshi immigrants in New York
Maintaining heritage languages across generations
Do heritage speakers work harder in their heritage language? A dual task study of cognitive effort in bilingual language processing
The Roadmap of Heritage Language Research in North America
Literacy instruction and lexicon size determine bilingual reading development of Russian-German children
Pún and tio̍h in Penang Hokkien
Syntactic Change in Contact
What is Difficult about Grammatical Gender? Evidence from Heritage Russian
Input effects across domains
Lexical frequency and morphological regularity as sources of heritage speaker variability in the acquisition of mood
Sentence comprehension in heritage language
Preserved morphological processing in heritage speakers
The interpretation of syntactically unconstrained anaphors in Turkish heritage speakers
Monolingual and Bilingual Reading Processes in Russian
On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English
Writing proficiency profiles of heritage learners of Chinese, Korean, and Spanish
The Role of Age Variables in Family Language Policy
Case Marking Variation in Heritage Slavic Languages in Toronto
On the Perception of a Chinese American English Accent
Can Heritage Speakers Predict Lexical and Morphosyntactic Information in Reading
Heritage Spanish in Montreal
Differential Access
My Child Is a Perfect Bilingual
Language Processing in Spanish Heritage Speakers
Language Mixing and Diachronic Change
A Phonetic Account of Spanish-English Bilinguals' Divergence with Agreement
The Internal Structure of Spanish-German Verbalizations and the Sophistication of Bilinguals' Linguistic Knowledge
Scalar and Counterfactual Approximatives
Matjarr Djuyal
Aspectual se and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals
Brazilian Bimodal Bilinguals as Heritage Signers
Language history attenuates syntactic prediction in L1 processing
Redefining Language Death
Heritage language acquisition
The emergence of clausal nominalizations in Laz
The Acquisition of Heritage Languages
Language Attrition
Language Contact and Change
Bilingual Language Acquisition
Effects of the Second Language on the First
Language Transfer
Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
The Syntax of Agreement and Concord
Spanish in New YorkLanguage Contact, Dialectal Leveling, and Structural Continuity
Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism
Reanalysis in Adult Heritage Language
Consequences of the Serial Nature of Linguistic Input for Sentenial Complexity
Measuring Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of a Second Language
Native Italian speakers’ perception and production of English vowels
Constructing Subject-Verb Agreement in Speech
Interaction between the native and second language phonetic subsystems
Individual differences in syntactic processing
Differential Object Marking in Child and Adult Spanish Heritage Speakers
Broken agreement
Meaning, sound and syntax in english number agreement
The language bioprogram hypothesis
Language transfer in language learning
On Experiencers
A Prolegomenon to the Construct of the Native Speaker
The (Il)Logical Problem of Heritage Speaker Bilingualism and Incomplete Acquisition
Spanish heritage speakers in the Southwest
Knowledge of tense-aspect and mood in Spanish heritage speakers
Disentangling sources of incomplete acquisition
The acquisition of relative clause comprehension in Hebrew
Defining an “ideal” heritage speaker
Generative grammar and language mixing
Marking Topic or Marking Case
Lost in Between
The development of relative clauses in spontaneous child speech
Loss of Gender Agreement in L1 Attrition
Generalized Inversion
Syntactic processing
Psych-verbs and ?-theory
Scope Processing in Chinese
Merge and binding in child relative clauses
Pinning down the concept of "interface" in bilingualism
Heritage languages and their speakers
Bidirectional Transfer
L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model
Nominals and Nominalizations in Catalan
Gender in Amharic
Maturational Constraints and First Language Attrition
The Effects of Instruction on Linguistic Development in Spanish Heritage Language Speakers
Heritage Languages
The Maturation of Grammatical Principles
V-Raising and Grammar Competition in Korean
Concord in Minimalist Theory
Rethinking Complementizer Agreement
The Relation between Gender and Number Agreement Processing
Processing reflexes of the Feature Hierarchy (Person > Number > Gender) and implications for linguistic theory
Why children aren't universally successful with quantification
Cognitive and linguistic factors affecting subject/object asymmetry
Subject/object processing asymmetries in Korean relative clauses
Iconic and Economic Motivation
Person and Number in Pronouns
| Unique citing works | 85 |
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| Citations per year | 8,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 84 |