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 …

The study of bilingualism has a history that extends from deciphering ancient multilingual
texts to mapping the structure of the multilingual brain. The language experiences of …

Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in
Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also …

This paper discusses the interplay between acquisition and theory construction. It endeavors
to show how a more direct and crucially bi‐directional relationship between formal linguistic …

Recent years have seen an increased interest in the study of heritage language bilinguals.
However, much of the research on heritage bilingualism is fraught with deficit framing. In this …

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

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 …

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 present work presents a critical assessment of claims in recent literature that moribund
language varieties exhibit accelerated language decay, and that attrition in individual …

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 …