In this paper, we bring to the attention of the linguistic community recent research on
heritage languages. Shifting linguistic attention from the model of a monolingual speaker to …

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 …

Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech
in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that …

This chapter reviews recent studies of cognitive and linguistic correlates of exposure to two
languages in infancy and early childhood. Most of the studies reviewed directly compare …

Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive
textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages. It brings …

Accumulating evidence shows how language context shapes bilingual language use and its
cognitive consequences. However, few studies have considered the impact of language …

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 …

Linguistic theory and experimental studies of language development rest heavily on the
notion of the adult, perhaps linguistically stable, native speaker. Native speaker competence …

Recent studies of heritage speakers, many of whom possess incomplete knowledge of their
family language, suggest that these speakers may be linguistically superior to second …

The effects of language transfer have been amply documented in second language (L2)
acquisition and, to a lesser extent, in the language contact/loss literature (Cook, 2003). In …