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 …

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 …

Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This study investigates perceived accent
in the two early-acquired languages of 21 adult-aged bilinguals with Italian as the heritage …

This study investigates Spanish heritage speakers' perception and production of Spanish
lexical stress. Stress minimal pairs in various prosodic contexts were used to examine …

This study examines cross-generational transmission of a sociophonetic variable in a
heritage language context. Voiceless stop aspiration is a sociophonetic variable in …

This chapter provides an overview of major theories and findings in the field of second
language (L2) phonetics and phonology. Four main conceptual frameworks are discussed …

This is the first study to examine the effect of phonetic contexts on children's lexical tone
production. Mandarin tones in disyllabic words produced by forty-four 2-to 6-year-old …

When speaking their heritage language, heritage speakers typically sound much like other
“native speakers.” However, recent studies have found that heritage speakers (HSs) are …

This study examines how dominance and proficiency relate to Spanish heritage speaker
vowel productions. Participants' normalized vowel measurements were compared to …

Near-native speakers (heritage speakers and adult second language learners alike)
experience difficulty in interpreting and producing linguistic constructions that contain …