In this article, we propose that elements of heritage language grammars—both in the form of
axiomatic features and larger combined representational units—are not easily lost over the …

This paper provides an overview of the phenomenon of heritage language and offers
evidence in support of representational differences between (baseline) native grammars …

Polinsky and Scontras (Polinsky & Scontras, 2019) convincingly demonstrate that linguistic
theorizing and research on bilingualism can mutually benefit from each other. We agree that …

This study investigates the role of transfer from the stronger language by focusing on the
interpretation of definite articles in Spanish and English by Spanish heritage speakers (ie …

The present investigation examines intra-speaker variability in heritage speakers (HSs) of
Spanish by focusing on the potential effects of two variables in their acquisition of mood …

There has been a substantial amount of research on heritage language acquisition and
diachronic change. Although recent work has increasingly pointed to parallels between …

With a growing interest in heritage languages from researchers of bilingualism and linguistic
theory, the field of heritage-language studies has begun to build on its empirical …

Previous studies (eg., van Osch & Sleeman 2016; Perez-Cortes 2016) have found that
heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish produce less lexically-selected subjunctive mood …

In this paper, we bring to the attention of the linguistic community recent research on
heritage languages. Shifting linguistic attention from the model of a monolingual speaker to …

We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their
languages and present results from a large-scale, cross-linguistic study that took such a …