The substantial uptick in research on heritage languages over the past three decades has
enhanced our understanding of the development of bilingual grammars throughout the …

Recent decades have seen an increase in research informing our understanding of the
complex ways in which bilingual development is shaped by biological, cognitive, and …

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 …

The notion of complexity is evasive and often left to intuition, yet it is often invoked when
studying heritage language grammars. In this article, we propose a first pass at …

In this article, we discuss the perceptions of researchers who work on heritage language
bilingualism (HLB), educators who teach heritage speakers (HSs), and, crucially, HSs …

Research on heritage language grammars to date provides overwhelming support for the
general stability of their syntactic systems, while the status of their morphology can vary …

We examined case‐marking variation in heritage Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
Comparing heritage to homeland Polish and Ukrainian speakers, we found only a few types …

Both the concept of native speaker/signer and the term itself have been widely critiqued
across fields of language research. However, this term is still often used uncritically by …

Since the inception of generative grammar, linguists have sought to achieve a more refined
understanding of the underlying universals of the cognitive underpinnings associated with …

Heritage languages (HLs) are acquired in contexts of unbalanced input, or situations in
which children receive primary exposure to the family/HL and experience an abrupt shift …