Eyetracking evidence for heritage speakers' access to abstract syntactic agreement features in real-time processing

Z Fuchs - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This paper presents the results of an eyetracking study that uses the Visual World Paradigm
to determine whether heritage speakers of Polish can use grammatical gender cues to …

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 …

Facilitative use of grammatical gender in Heritage Spanish

Z Fuchs - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2022 - jbe-platform.com
This paper presents an eye-tracking study using the Visual World Paradigm that tests
whether participants are able to access gender information on definite articles and deploy it …

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 …

Heritage speakers' processing of the Spanish subjunctive: A pupillometric study

P López-Beltrán, PE Dussias - Linguistic Approaches to …, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
We investigated linguistic knowledge of subjunctive mood in heritage speakers of Spanish
who live in a long-standing English-Spanish bilingual community in Albuquerque, New …

A portrait of lexical knowledge among adult Hebrew heritage speakers dominant in American English: evidence from naming and narrative tasks

C Fridman, N Meir - Languages, 2023 - mdpi.com
While the field of heritage language (HL) bilingualism has grown substantially in recent
years, no studies have considered heritage Hebrew speakers dominant in American …

Morphological transparency and markedness matter in heritage speaker gender processing: an EEG study

A Luque, E Rossi, M Kubota, M Nakamura… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The present study investigated the qualitative nature of grammatical gender knowledge and
processing in heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish living in the United States. Forty-four adult …

Cross-linguistic influence, limited input, or working-memory limitations: The morphosyntax of agreement and concord in Heritage Russian

T Verkhovtceva, M Polinsky, N Meir - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2023 - cambridge.org
This study investigated the morphosyntax of adjectival concord in case and number and
subject-verb person agreement by monolingual and bilingual speakers of Russian. The …

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) …

The role of external factors on the reactivation of the heritage language of Turkish-German returnees

E Antonova-Unlu, F Bayram - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction This study investigates the heritage language performance of Turkish-German
returnees upon their reintegration into Turkey and explores the impact of external factors on …