On the permeability of grammars: Syntactic pattern replications in heritage Croatian and heritage Serbian spoken in Germany

Hansen, Björn

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“…Instances of case mismatch within the NP were observed in our sample of Bosnian heritage speakers, in line with findings from both Hlavac (2003) , Hansen et al (2013) and Hansen (2018) . In the example (15), we can see an instance of both case and number mismatch occurring within a single NP.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…As previously observed in adult and child heritage Russian speakers and adult heritage BCMS speakers, Bosnian heritage speakers in the current study also exhibited some difficulty with two way prepositions and accusative and locative alternation (for BCMS: Hansen et al, 2013 ; Hansen, 2018 ; for Russian: Isurin and Ivanova-Sullivan, 2008 ; Schwartz and Minkov, 2014 ). The accusative and locative were used interchangeably and indiscriminately with the two-way prepositions.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…The meticulously controlled tools and methods used to compile the corpus presented here allow for replicability lacking in earlier research. Moreover, prior studies either did not take into account linguistic background (AoO, HL use and input) ( Raecke, 2006 ; Hansen et al, 2013 ; Hansen, 2018 ) or, if they did, no attempts were made to relate these factors systematically to the linguistic phenomena observed in the heritage language ( Hlavac, 2003 ). The current study not only gathered relevant data on a range of linguistic factors such as AoO, HL input and usage and non-linguistic factors such as SES across participants, but this information was also utilized to quantitatively evaluate which of these factors are crucial to the development of specific HL domains.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research on heritage BCMS in the German-speaking context have also had a sociolinguistic focus, especially on the issue of cultural identity ( Savić, 1989 ; Schlund, 2006 ; Randjelovic, 2019 ). The main insights into the language features of heritage BCMS speakers in a Germanophone context comes from studies by Hansen et al (2013) and Hansen (2018) 5 . These authors investigated heritage BCMS speakers aged between 20 and 32.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Case marking is different in monolingual and heritage Bosnian in digitally elicited oral texts

Jažić

Gagarina²,

Perovic³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Heritage languages may differ from baseline languages spoken in the home country, particularly in the domains of vocabulary, morphosyntax and phonology. The success of acquiring and maintaining a heritage language may depend on a range of factors, from the age of acquisition of the second language; quantity and quality of input and frequency of first language use, to non-linguistic factors, such as Socio-Economic Status (SES). To investigate case marking accuracy in heritage Bosnian in relation to these very factors, we recruited 20 heritage Bosnian speakers in Austria and Germany, and 20 monolingual Bosnian speakers in Bosnia, aged between 18 and 30 years. Participants were assessed remotely in two sessions, on a battery of tests that included a background language questionnaire investigating participants’ history of language acquisition, current usage and SES, and a newly adapted Bosnian version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). A significant difference in case marking accuracy was found between the two groups, despite the 97% correct performance in the heritage speakers, and an almost 100% performance of the monolinguals. In the heritage speakers group only, errors indicated a trend toward case system simplification as well as uncertainty in distinguishing between case meanings. The use of Bosnian, assessed through quantity and quality of input, as well as frequency of current usage, was shown to be a significant predictor of case marking accuracy in heritage speakers. In contrast, SES and age of acquisition of German did not play a role in these participants’ case accuracy. The observed patterns of quantitative and qualitative differences in the case marking accuracy between heritage Bosnian speakers and their monolingual counterparts, in the face of a high level of accuracy, contribute to our understanding of the heritage language attainment in more diverse language dyads where L1 is a lesser studied language.

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Section: Bosnian As a Heritage Languagementioning

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Case marking is different in monolingual and heritage Bosnian in digitally elicited oral texts

Jažić

Gagarina²,

Perovic³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…At least 2.4% of the Swiss population speaks BCMS on a daily basis, which corresponds to 173,546 individuals. 2 However, the BCMS spoken in Switzerland is still under-investigated, despite the increasing body of research on heritage languages (Polinsky & Scontras, 2020 ) and on heritage BCMS spoken in other German-speaking countries (Hansen, 2018 ; Hansen et al, 2013 ; Raecke, 2007 ; Romić, 2016 ; Schlund, 2006 ; Simonović & Arsenijević, 2020 ). One of the main challenges in the research on heritage varieties is the difficulty in obtaining and redistributing authentic data, which often limits the research settings to case studies based on online communication between peers (Kajgo, 2020 ; Zagoricnik, 2014 ).…”

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Map Task Corpus of Heritage BCMS spoken by second-generation speakers in Switzerland

Lemmenmeier-Batinić

Batinić

Escher

2023

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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In this paper, we present a corpus for heritage Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian (BCMS) spoken in German-speaking Switzerland. The corpus consists of elicited conversations between 29 second-generation speakers originating from different regions of former Yugoslavia. In total, the corpus contains 30 turn-aligned transcripts with an average length of 6 min. It is enriched with extensive speakers’ metadata, annotations, and pre-calculated corpus counts. The corpus can be accessed through an interactive corpus platform that allows for browsing, querying, and filtering, but also for creating and sharing custom annotations. Principal user groups we address with this corpus are researchers of heritage BCMS, as well as students and teachers of BCMS living in diaspora. In addition to introducing the corpus platform and the workflows we adopted to create it, we also present a case study on BCMS spoken by a pair of siblings who participated in the map task, and discuss advantages and challenges of using this corpus platform for linguistic research.

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Heritage Language Forms

Laleko

2024

The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics

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On the permeability of grammars: Syntactic pattern replications in heritage Croatian and heritage Serbian spoken in Germany

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Case marking is different in monolingual and heritage Bosnian in digitally elicited oral texts

Case marking is different in monolingual and heritage Bosnian in digitally elicited oral texts

Map Task Corpus of Heritage BCMS spoken by second-generation speakers in Switzerland

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