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Heritage speaker educational identity as a complex dynamic system: A grounded theory
This dissertation introduces the construct of heritage speaker educational identity, conceptualizes it through constructivist grounded theory methodology, and connects it to theories of chaos and complex dynamic systems for explanatory purposes and theoretical anchoring. My goal is threefold: …
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Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects
<p>Traditionally, heritage speakers are recognized as a heterogeneous group whose skills in their heritage language are unlike those of monolinguals or L2 learners of that language. Indeed, much evidence confirms the cognitive and linguistic uniqueness of this population. However, highly proficient …
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Recovering Ergativity in Heritage Samoan
The unique language profile of a heritage speaker offers an ideal opportunity to investigate the persistence of specific linguistic systems in the face of language shift (i.e. reduced input). Ergativity, the morphosyntactic system of alignment that sets A (the subject of a transitive verb) apart …
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The acquisition of bare nominals by three populations of Spanish-English bilingual adults
… three different groups of Spanish-English speakers’ knowledge of the distribution of definite articles in both of their languages using a battery of tests that require them to draw on different linguistic abilities. These three groups include native English speakers who learned Spanish …
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Dual returnees: discordant harmonious bilingualism
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms