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

Introduction Language policies are often aimed at changing language behaviours, yet it is
notoriously difficult to assess their effects. This study investigates language use and …

Russian and Turkish are the most frequently spoken and intensively investigated heritage
languages in Germany, but contrastive research on their development in early childhood is …

This PhD thesis investigates patterns of crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in the acquisition of
English as a third language (L3) across two grammatical domains, namely perceived global …

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the contribution of linguistic research on
Portuguese as a heritage language in Germany to the general understanding of heritage …

In recent times, the study of heritage languages has rapidly grown as an area of enquiry.
However, until now, less has been known about the sounds and sound systems of heritage …

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

In heritage language (HL) research, prosodic aspects of heritage speakers (HSs) speech
have only recently started to receive attention and the results have been mixed. While some …

Aims and objectives: This article investigates naturalistic acquisition of a second dialect
(D2), comparing the global accent of speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) exposed to …

Russian and Turkish are the most frequently spoken and intensively investigated heritage
languages in Germany, but contrastive research on their development in early childhood is …