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 …

First-language acquisition of morphology refers to the process whereby native speakers
gain full and automatic command of the inflectional and derivational machinery of their …

In studying language acquisition in children, sizable research studies have been focusing
on the investigation of form and lexical semantics. This study aims to establish a child …

Previous research suggests that child HSs' performance in offline linguistic tasks is typically
worse than their age-matched monolingual peers and is modulated by linguistic and child …

Background Little is known about the spontaneous speech characteristics of young children
with language delay in Mandarin, relative to their peers. Until the recent development of …

Across languages, structures with non-canonical word order have been shown to be
problematic for both child and adult heritage speakers. To investigate the linguistic and child …

The current study combined sentence plausibility judgment and self-paced reading tasks to
examine the comprehension strategies and processing patterns of Chinese deaf individuals …

Recent research has identified language development in school-age heritage children as an
important yet missing link between child early bilinguals and adult heritage speakers. This …

A central tenet of cognitive linguistics is that adults' knowledge of language consists of a
structured inventory of constructions, including various two-argument constructions such as …

To better understand Mandarin-speaking children's acquisition of non-canonical word
orders, we tested comprehension and production of Mandarin non-canonical active ba …