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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"heritage speakers"”.
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Case and Copular Sentences in Heritage Speakers of Russian
… thesis investigates the language abilities of heritage speakers of Russian (those who learned Russian at home, but later switched to English as their primary language, such as children of immigrants) regarding predicate case alternation in copular sentences. In Russian, predicates of copular …
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Speaking Identity: Language Investment and Agency Among Spanish Heritage Speakers
This dissertation investigates how Spanish heritage speakers (HS) in Chicago negotiate their bilingual identities and invest in their heritage language amid competing social forces. Drawing on frameworks of identity, agency, and critical language awareness, the study explores how Spanish shapes …
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The acquisition of Mandarin by heritage speakers and second language learners
… investigates whether English-dominant heritage speakers (HSs) of Mandarin have selective advantages over proficiency-matched adult second language learners (L2ers) in several Mandarin linguistic phenomena, given the early age of acquisition (AoA) by HSs. Previous studies have found that …
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Spanish pragmatic markers' usage patterns in second language and heritage speakers
… the patterns of use of pragmatic markers in heritage speakers and second language (L2) learners of Spanish at different proficiency levels (advanced vs. low-intermediate) by comparing their performances in a series of oral tasks. The investigation is guided by two main goals: 1) to analyze …
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Spanish Heritage Speakers' Spanish and English Writings: Contrastive Rhetorical and Linguistic Analyses
… Language Learners (SSLL) who are English Native Speakers, and Spanish Native Speakers from Mexico (SNS). The English texts were compared only to the English production of SSLL. A total of 216 pages (yielding a final corpus of 49,428 words) were analyzed. The rhetorical and the linguistic analyses …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… usage in the Spanish of Chilean-American heritage speakers. Spanish heritage speakers in the United States are second generation bilinguals who learn Spanish in the home from Spanish speaking parents and learn English from school and the community (Montrul 2002; Rothman 2007). When …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… usage in the Spanish of Chilean-American heritage speakers. Spanish heritage speakers in the United States are second generation bilinguals who learn Spanish in the home from Spanish speaking parents and learn English from school and the community (Montrul 2002; Rothman 2007). When …
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Non-standard Italian Dialect Heritage Speakers' Acquisition of Clitic Placement in Standard Italian
… object clitic placement in Standard Italian by heritage speakers (HSs) of non-standard Italian dialects. It compares two different groups of Standard Italian learners--Northern Italian dialect HSs and Southern Italian dialect HSs--whose heritage dialects contrast with each other in clitic word …
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The perception and production of prominence in Spanish by heritage speakers and L2 learners
"Heritage speakers (i.e., descendants of immigrants that speak an ethnic minority language in a society where a different language is spoken as the majority language) are linguistically a unique population, because, while their early and immersed exposure to the heritage language puts them in an …
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The production of Arabic vowels by English L2 learners and heritage speakers of Arabic
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The role of schooling for heritage language learners: A case study of Turkish heritage speakers
… study with a descriptive statistical analysis of heritage language learners’ language skills explores how Turkish communities in the U.S. support their children’s heritage language maintenance with the help of Heritage Language school. The goal of this study is to analyze Heritage Language (HL) …
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Investigating Syntactic and Lexical Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in the Writing of Heritage Speakers of Russian
<p>Heritage speakers (HSs) of Russian in the United States form a very complex and diverse group of learners. Research in heritage linguistics has examined key parameters of the HSs’ oral production. Important work has been done in heritage language (HL) pragmatics, morphology, and lexicon. …
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Binding Interpretations in Adult Bilingualism: A Study of Language Transfer in L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers of Korean
Two anaphors (caki and caki-casin) were investigated to test core vs. exempt binding of Korean. Two experiments were conducted --- one with Truth Value Judgment with stories, which tests core binding properties such as size of Governing Category (Manzini and Wexler 1987) and Sub-command (Tang …
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Home bilingual and cultural literacy practices of Yoruba heritage speakers towards identity maintenance in the Midwest United States
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Mood Simplification: Adverbial Clauses in Heritage Spanish
… are similarities between the monolingual and heritage speakers regarding familiarity with and use of the grammatical subjunctive. Heritage speakers seem to be more tolerant towards the ungrammatical presence of indicative, like L2 learners; however, heritage speakers show differences with the …
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The impact of L1 literacy on L1 morphosyntactic development and the production of verbal passives in school-age Spanish heritage speakers and L1 Spanish adults
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Development of Cantonese as a heritage language in children: Experiments in phonology and morphosyntax
… examines the development of Cantonese in young heritage speakers (age of testing 3;10–12;3) in New York City. These heritage speakers were raised speaking predominantly Cantonese at home, but were exposed to English (the majority language) from a young age. The research investigates whether they …
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A Comparative Variationist Analysis of Phonetic Variation and Change in Toronto Heritage Tagalog
Heritage languages are defined as a product of language contact. In this scenario, patterns of variability are often attributed to contact with the majority language. However, variability may not necessarily or solely be due to contact; it may also be driven by language-internal processes or even …
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"Marie Manje La Pom Nan." Examining the Cognitive Process of Restructuring and Advantage Selection in the Definite Article System in Haitian Creole Among U.S. Born Heritage Speakers of Haitian Creole
<p>The distributional patterns of heritage speakers’ reanalyzed first language are often grammatically divergent from native speakers. Irrespective of the heritage language, there is converging evidence that the cognitive process of reanalysis of heritage languages is often evident in less salient …
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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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