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 …

Building lexical knowledge is one of the most fundamental developments in early childhood;
as such development is associated with children's later academic achievement and other …

Research on heritage language development in children can profit greatly by incorporating
insights from analyses of structured variation, which is defined as the interchange of …

This study investigates child heritage speakers' Spanish direct objects. A task designed to
elicit direct objects was completed in Spanish and English by 40 child heritage speakers of …

A heritage language is the term given to a language spoken at home by bilingual children of
immigrant parents. Written by a leading figure in the field, this pioneering, in-depth study …

A roadmap for heritage language research Page 1 Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
cambridge.org/bil Authors’ Response Cite this article: Polinsky M, Scontras G (2020). A roadmap …

This chapter contextualizes the methodological landscape of formal linguistic heritage
language studies, with a special emphasis on emerging, innovative trends. The chapter is …

It has been suggested that the parents of heritage speakers (2nd generation immigrants),
who are the main source of input to them, may exhibit first-language (L1) attrition in their …

Naturalistic production research has reported that, unlike monolingual peers, children
acquiring Spanish as a heritage language omit Differential Object Marking (DOM) with …

Investigating heritage language (HL)-contact effects on the dominant language has received
limited attention despite its importance in understanding the dynamic interplay between …