This chapter contextualizes the methodological landscape of formal linguistic heritage
language studies, with a special emphasis on emerging, innovative trends. The chapter is …

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

This chapter discusses L3/Ln acquisition as a step-by-step acquisition process, where
crosslinguistic influence is considered to be the result of co-activation of lexical items and …

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 …

Using a novel combination of visual moving window paradigm and timed grammaticality
judgment task, this study examines how third language (L3) learners (beginners and …

This paper tested the ability of Mandarin learners of German, whose native language has
lexical tone, to imitate pitch accent contrasts in German, an intonation language. In …

The study of linguistic transfer—understood here in terms of the copying of previous
linguistic representations—seeks to reveal how domain-relevant prior language knowledge …

The present dissertation, embedded in the field of heritage language (HL) bilingualism,
investigates grammatical gender (hereafter, gender) agreement within the nominal domain …

This PhD thesis sits at the crossroads of two subfields of bilingualism/multilingualism
studies: multilingual language acquisition/processing and neurocognition of bi …

Interest in the acquisition and use of heritage languages (HLs; understood in this chapter as
the languages of immigrants learned by their offspring at home) has long existed, although …