In recent years, researchers have become increasingly interested in exploring frequency as
a source of variability in heritage speakers'(HSs) knowledge of their heritage language (HL) …

Previous research indicates that heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish produce both
subjunctive and indicative mood in expected subjunctive contexts. The present study sheds …

The present study investigates variability in heritage speakers'(HSs) knowledge of
inalienable possession in Spanish (eg, me rompí el brazo:'I broke my arm'). By testing HSs' …

A total of 54 HS and 17 Spanish-dominant participants completed an elicited production task
(EPT) and a forced choice task (FCT) to explore how proficiency, frequency of use, age of …

Along with declaratives and interrogatives, imperatives are one of the three major clause
types of human language. In Spanish, imperative verb forms present poor morphology, yet …

The present study examines the production and interpretation of infinitives among 26
Spanish heritage speakers born and raised in the US and 25 Spanish-dominant speakers …

This study investigates the acquisition of subject placement in unergative and unaccusative
predicates among heritage speakers of Spanish by addressing two constraints ruling the …

The feature reassembly approach to second language acquisition research has been
influential in laying the groundwork for recent theories of heritage languages. Lexical …

Verbal morphology is a particularly vulnerable domain in the grammars of Spanish heritage
speakers (HSs). Among the most frequently studied phenomena is mood selection …

For more than a decade, research on heritage speakers'(HSs') mood selection has
documented a high degree of variability in their interpretation and use of mood morphology …