This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers,
or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from …

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 …

Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …

A recurring question in the literature of heritage language acquisition, and more generally of
bilingual acquisition, is whether all linguistic domains are sensitive to input reduction and to …

Preface x language maintenance and development. From this discussion, the Alliance for
the Advancement of Heritage Languages was created, with a mission “to promote the …

This article discusses the dynamic nature of childhood bilingualism by analyzing oral
speech from returnee heritage speakers (HSs) of Portuguese, who grew up in Germany, but …

This paper focuses on the linguistic competence of adult Portuguese–German bilinguals in
their heritage language, European Portuguese (EP), which they acquired at home in early …

This paper is based upon a longitudinal study of L2 attrition in a bilingual child who grew up
in an L2 migration background (Germany) and moved to the country of origin (Portugal) at …

This paper investigates object omissions in the spontaneous production of European
Portuguese by second-generation Portuguese-German bilingual speakers and compares …