Monolingual comparative normativity in bilingualism research is out of “control”: Arguments and alternatives

J Rothman, F Bayram, V DeLuca, G Di Pisa… - Applied …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Herein, we contextualize, problematize, and offer some insights for moving beyond the
problem of monolingual comparative normativity in (psycho) linguistic research on …

Syntactic optionality in heritage Spanish: How patterns of exposure and use affect clitic climbing

JC López Otero, E Hur… - International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and Objectives: This study explores Spanish heritage speakers'(HSs) knowledge of
clitic climbing and the (extra-) linguistic factors that modulate it. Design: Heritage speakers of …

Documenting heritage language experience using questionnaires

A Tomić, Y Rodina, F Bayram, C De Cat - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction There exists a great degree of variability in the documentation of multilingual
experience across different instruments. The present paper contributes to the “methods turn” …

Effects of markedness in gender processing in Italian as a heritage language: A speed accuracy tradeoff

G Di Pisa, M Kubota, J Rothman, T Marinis - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Lexical and morphosyntactic variation in Persian heritage language outcomes

K Gharibi, F Bayram, G Guajardo - Linguistic Approaches to …, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
Individual variation in heritage language (HL) outcomes does not seem to be random.
Instead, this variation can be related to the specific exposure and use patterns heritage …

Russian heritage language development in narrative contexts: Evidence from pre-and primary-school children in Norway, Germany, and the UK

Y Rodina, A Bogoyavlenskaya, N Mitrofanova… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The present study aims at obtaining a comprehensive picture of language development in
Russian heritage language (RHL) by bringing together evidence from previous …

Being a heritage speaker matters: the role of markedness in subject-verb person agreement in Italian

G Di Pisa, SM Pereira Soares, J Rothman… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This study examines online processing and offline judgments of subject-verb person
agreement with a focus on how this is impacted by markedness in heritage speakers (HSs) …

Schooling and language usage matter in heritage bilingual processing: Sortal classifiers in Mandarin

J Hao, M Kubota, F Bayram… - Second Language …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Mandarin sortal classifiers simultaneously encode semantic and grammatical form class
cues. Building on a second language (L2) study of Grüter et al. we used the same visual …

On the Role of Informal vs. Formal Context of Language Experience in Italian–German Primary School Children

M Piccione, MF Ferin, N Furlani, M Geiß, T Marinis… - Languages, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study focuses on the contexts of language experience in relation to language
dominance in eighty-seven Italian–German primary school children in Germany using the …

Grammatical gender and Markedness in the nominal domain: evidence from heritage bilingualism

G Di Pisa - 2023 - kops.uni-konstanz.de
The present dissertation, embedded in the field of heritage language (HL) bilingualism,
investigates grammatical gender (hereafter, gender) agreement within the nominal domain …