This paper intends to provide some speculative remarks on how consistency and continuity
in language use practices within and across contexts inform heritage language acquisition …

The Adaptive Control Hypothesis and the Control Process Model propose that bilingual
language use in different interactional contexts requires control processes that can adapt in …

Few studies have examined global foreign accent (GFA) in bilingual children, and little is
known about how GFA changes over time and what factors determine change. Here, we …

This study brings together two previously largely independent fields of multilingual language
acquisition: heritage language and third language (L3) acquisition. We investigate the …

Previous research has shown that the two languages of early bilingual children can
influence each other, depending on the linguistic property, while adult bilinguals …

Bringing to the field of third language (L3) research a new population of speakers, namely
heritage speaker (HS) L3 learners, this study investigates the accents of 19 German-Italian …

This study examined potential sources of grammatical gender variability in heritage
speakers (HSs) of Italian with a focus on morphological markedness. Fifty-four adult Italian …

The present study examines the perceived L1 accent of two groups of native Spaniards in
the United Kingdom, Spanish teachers, and non-teachers, alongside monolingual controls …

The present chapter provides an overview of the main questions investigated in research on
bilingual returnees. Returnees are second/third generation speakers who grow up in a …

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