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 …

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 …

We analyze the way children and youngsters perceive the role of family in the use and
acquisition of the heritage language (HL), through two complementary means: drawings …

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 …

The present paper aims to contribute to our understanding of heritage language acquisition
by focusing on the results of three studies on heritage speakers of European Portuguese …

Pascual y Cabo and Rothman (2012) and Kupisch and Rothman (2018) argue against the
use of term incomplete to characterize the grammars of heritage speakers, claiming that it …

Este estudo parte da constatação de que a Línguística e a Didática de Línguas se
debruçam, com os seus instrumentos heuristicos e conceptuais próprios, sobre o conceito …

This paper focuses on the linguistic competence of adult Portuguese–German bilinguals in
their heritage language, European Portuguese (EP), which they acquired at home in early …

Direct object omission is a general occurrence, observed in varying degrees across the
world's languages. The expression of verbal transitivity in small children begins with the …

This study examined the phenomena of incomplete acquisition, attrition, and protracted
acquisition of the L1 in HL children by focusing on the comprehension and production of …