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Author Montrul, Silvina

Title Native Speakers, Interrupted Differential Object Marking and Language Change in Heritage Languages
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (348 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 On Heritage Speakers as Native Speakers -- 1.1 Who Is a Native Speaker? -- 1.1.1 Place of Birth -- 1.1.2 Acquisition, Ultimate Attainment, and Linguistic Stability -- 1.1.3 Non-Native Speakers -- 1.1.4 Measuring Native-Likeness -- 1.2 Variability in Monolingually Raised Native Speakers -- 1.2.1 Level of Education -- 1.2.2 Knowledge of Another Language -- 1.2.3 Loss of Native Speaker Status: L1 Attrition
1.3 Bilingual and Multilingual Native Speakers -- 1.4 Multilingual Native Speakers and Language Change -- 1.5 Summary -- 2 Structural Changes in Heritage Language Grammars -- 2.1 The Structure of Heritage Language Grammars -- 2.1.1 Changes Compared to What? The Baseline Again -- 2.1.2 Transgenerational Studies -- 2.1.3 Common Linguistic Processes -- 2.2 Sources of Variability in Heritage Language Grammars -- 2.2.1 Quantity of Input -- 2.2.2 Quality of Input -- 2.2.3 Input and Linguistic Modularity -- 2.2.4 Input and Age -- 2.2.5 The Socio-Affective Dimension -- 2.2.6 Dominant Language Transfer
2.2.7 Interface Vulnerability -- 2.2.8 Language Processing Limitations -- 2.3 Intergenerational Transmission -- 2.3.1 Language Change in Progress? -- 2.3.2 Comparing Heritage Languages -- 2.4 Summary -- 3 Differential Object Marking -- 3.1 The Phenomenon -- 1.3.1 Spanish -- 3.1.2 Romanian -- 3.1.3 Hindi -- 3.2 Syntactic Analyses -- 3.3 A Note on Dative Subjects -- 3.4 Summary -- 4 Language Change and the Acquisition of Differential Object Marking -- 4.1 Language Acquisition and Language Change -- 4.2 Differential Object Marking in Monolingual Acquisition
4.3 Differential Object Marking in Second Language Acquisition -- 4.4 Differential Object Marking in Early Bilingualism and Heritage Languages -- 4.5 Summary -- 5 The Vulnerability of Differential Object Marking in Three Heritage Languages -- 5.1 Research Questions and Hypotheses -- 5.1.1 Patterns of Language Change -- Research Question 1: -- Hypotheses: -- Research Question 2: -- Hypotheses: -- 2.1.2 Direct generational language transmission -- Research Question 3: -- Hypotheses: -- 2.1.3 Linguistic factors -- Research Questions 4: -- Hypotheses: -- 2.1.4 Situational factors -- 5.2 Methodology
5.2.1 Participants -- 5.2.2 Instruments -- Language background questionnaires (LBQs) -- Proficiency measures -- Production tasks -- Oral narrative -- Elicited oral production task -- Elicited written production task -- Auditory/written comprehension task -- Bimodal acceptability judgment task -- 5.3 Procedure -- 5.4 Data Processing and Analyses -- 5.5 Summary -- 6 Differential Object Marking in Spanish as a Heritage Language -- 6.1 The Spanish-Speaking Population in the United States -- 6.2 Participants -- 6.2.1 Proficiency
Summary A study of the language acquisition and transmission of Hindi, Spanish and Romanian as heritage languages in the United States
Notes Description based upon print version of record
6.2.2 Spanish heritage speakers' patterns of language use from childhood to adolescence
Subject Bilingualism -- United States
Heritage language speakers -- United States
Linguistic change -- United States
Spanish language -- Direct object
Spanish language -- Morphosyntax
Hindustani language -- Direct object
Hindustani language -- Morphosyntax
Romanian language -- Direct object
Romanian language -- Morphosyntax
Bilingualism
Heritage language speakers
Linguistic change
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1009302086
9781009302081