Linguistic Foundations of Heritage Language Development from the Perspective of Romance Languages in Germany

Flores, Cristina; Kupisch, Tanja; Rinke, Esther

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“…Definitions and descriptions of heritage speakers (HSs) vary (cf. Benmamoun, Montrul & Polinsky, 2013;Fishman, 2001;Flores, Kupisch & Rinke, 2017;Kupisch & Rothman, 2018;Montrul, 2008Montrul, , 2016Polinsky, 2018;Polinsky & Scontras, 2020;Rothman, 2009). For the purpose of the present paper, the details of who exactly counts as an HS or not is less crucial, because we expect similar processes to obtain in situations of EXTREME LANGUAGE CONTACT.…”

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Language history on fast forward: Innovations in heritage languages and diachronic change

Kupisch

Polinsky

2021

Bilingualism

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There has been a substantial amount of research on heritage language acquisition and diachronic change. Although recent work has increasingly pointed to parallels between those two areas, it remains unclear how systematic these are. In this paper, we provide a bird's eye view, illustrating how patterns of diachronic change are mirrored in heritage language grammars. In doing so, we focus on one of the best-described grammaticalization processes – namely, the formation of articles from demonstratives and numerals, reviewing studies on heritage varieties which mirror those processes. Based on this review, we make two main points: that change in heritage language can be predicted based on established diachronic scenarios, and that heritage languages often amplify incipient changes in the baseline. After discussing a number of attested changes in a bilingual context, we identify directions for future research in the domain of determiners in heritage languages.

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Language history on fast forward: Innovations in heritage languages and diachronic change

Kupisch

Polinsky

2021

Bilingualism

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“…One key feature of language dominance is its multidimensional construct, including language proficiency, language exposure, and language use (De Cat, 2020;Unsworth et al, 2018). Many studies on bilingual language development resort to solely one of these indicators as proxy for bilinguals' language dominance, for instance, determining dominance either in terms of relative proficiency or of the amount of exposure and/or use of two languages (see Flores et al, 2017;Treffers-Daller, 2019). In the literature, the former is normally referred to as performance-based measurements, whereas the latter as experience-based measuring procedures (Unsworth et al, 2018).…”

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“I no longer count in German.” On dominance shift in returnee heritage speakers

Flores

Zhou

Eira

2022

Applied Psycholinguistics

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This study analyzes the degree of language balance in three groups of bilingual speakers of Portuguese and German: a group of Portuguese heritage speakers (HSs) living in Germany, another who returned to Portugal, and Portuguese late learners of German L2. Based on the DIALANG vocabulary size placement test, applied in German and in Portuguese, and on extralinguistic variables extracted from a background questionnaire, the results confirm high degrees of unbalanced language dominance favoring the societal language (SL) in HSs without the experience of return, and a leveling of language dominance in returnees. Language balance in returnees is the consequence of some loss of proficiency in the former SL (German) and reactivation of the heritage language (Portuguese). Current relative amount of contact with the two languages is correlated with language dominance only in the HSs and the late L2 speaker groups, whereas age of return and length of residence in Portugal explain language dominance in returnees. Self-reported proficiency is also predictive of language dominance and may be taken as complementary indicator.

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“…Uma década depois de se ter popularizado na área de pesquisa da aquisição bilingue, também este termo está em vias de desuso. Naturalmente, a investigação sobre a aquisição de línguas de herança prossegue Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística com o objetivo de compreendermos os fatores linguísticos e extralinguísticos que moldam a competência do falante bilingue (Flores, Kupisch & Rinke, 2017).…”

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Investigação em Bilinguismo. Caminhos percorridos e perspetivas futuras

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2022

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This article presents a brief discussion of the key questions which were in the focus of interest in research on bilingualism in the last five decades, particularly in the field of bilingual language acquisition. We highlight how the initially negative view of bilingualism has changed based on scientific evidence. The overview starts with a discussion of some of the paths already taken in research on bilingualism, with a focus on the major findings concerning bilingual language development and the consequences of these findings for current views of bilingualism. The discussion moves, then, to the current research questions in this field, discussing the different methodologies used, as well as specific advances in the area of clinical linguistics. We conclude with a discussion on the topics that we believe still need further investigation, namely the nature of the interactions between the language systems of bilingual speakers and the role of the age of onset of bilingualism.

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Linguistic Foundations of Heritage Language Development from the Perspective of Romance Languages in Germany

Abstract: This paper discusses the role of different factors determining the linguistic competence of heritage speakers (HSs) based on examples from speakers who speak a Romance language (French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish) as heritage C. Flores (

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Language history on fast forward: Innovations in heritage languages and diachronic change

Language history on fast forward: Innovations in heritage languages and diachronic change

“I no longer count in German.” On dominance shift in returnee heritage speakers

Investigação em Bilinguismo. Caminhos percorridos e perspetivas futuras

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