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1 online resource (348 p.) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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6.2.2 Spanish heritage speakers' patterns of language use from childhood to adolescence |
Subject |
Bilingualism -- United States
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Heritage language speakers -- United States
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Linguistic change -- United States
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Spanish language -- Direct object
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Spanish language -- Morphosyntax
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Hindustani language -- Direct object
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Hindustani language -- Morphosyntax
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Romanian language -- Direct object
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Romanian language -- Morphosyntax
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Bilingualism
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Heritage language speakers
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Linguistic change
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1009302086 |
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9781009302081 |
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