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 …

This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers,
written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of …

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 …

“Linguistic theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener, in a completely
homogeneous speech-community, who knows its (the speech community's) language …

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 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 …

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 …

The present study analyzes the effect of age and amount of input in the acquisition of
European Portuguese as a heritage language. An elicited production task centred on mood …

Children acquiring their first languages are frequently regarded as the principal agents of
diachronic change. The causes and the precise nature of the processes of change are …