Rethinking multilingual experience through a Systems Framework of Bilingualism

DA Titone, M Tiv - Bilingualism: language and cognition, 2023 - cambridge.org
In “The Devil's Dictionary”, Bierce (1911) defined language as “The music with which we
charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.” This satirical definition reflects a core truth …

(In) frequently asked questions: On types of frequency and their role (s) in heritage language variability

S Perez-Cortes, D Giancaspro - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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) …

Bridging people and perspectives: General and language-specific social network structure predict mentalizing across diverse sociolinguistic contexts.

M Tiv, E Kutlu, E O'Regan, D Titone - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
La mentalisation, ou le raisonnement sur les états mentaux des autres, est un processus
cognitif social dynamique qui aide à comprendre les interactions sociales complexes. Nous …

(Ir) regular mood swings: Lexical variability in heritage speakers' oral production of subjunctive mood

D Giancaspro, S Perez‐Cortes, J Higdon - Language Learning, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research indicates that heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish produce both
subjunctive and indicative mood in expected subjunctive contexts. The present study sheds …

Child heritage speakers' acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in volitional and adverbial clauses

M Dracos, PE Requena - Language Acquisition, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Spanish subjunctive mood (SUBJ) is said to be highly vulnerable in heritage language
(HL) acquisition. However, there is little controlled research on HL-speaking children …

Rejecting nativeness to produce a more accurate and just Linguistics

A Birkeland, A Block, JT Craft, Y Sedarous, S Wang… - Language, 2024 - muse.jhu.edu
Both the concept of native speaker/signer and the term itself have been widely critiqued
across fields of language research. However, this term is still often used uncritically by …

From neurodidactics to language teaching and learning: The emotional approach

I Lucas-Oliva, G Toledo-Vega… - … and Practice in …, 2022 - tpls.academypublication.com
The latest findings in Neurodidactics in understanding learning processes are forcing a
review of the methodological approaches underlying teaching practices, including those …

On the Explanatory Validity of Proxies of Frequency in Heritage Language Acquisition Research: Evidence from Triangulated Data in Spanish

P Thane - Heritage Language Journal, 2023 - brill.com
Use and activation of the heritage language (hl) are essential for its maintenance, and the
frequency of individual words affects heritage speakers'(hs) morphological knowledge …

[HTML][HTML] Aspectual se and Telicity in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals: The Effects of Lexical Access, Dominance, Age of Acquisition, and Patterns of Language Use

G Martínez Vera, JC López Otero, MY Sokolova… - Languages, 2023 - mdpi.com
While differences in the production and acceptability of aspectual inflectional morphology
between Spanish–English heritage and monolingually raised speakers of Spanish have …

Bilingual young adults' perceived influence of parents, grandparents, siblings, and friends on their Spanish and English proficiency: A qualitative analysis

J Jasso, A Castilla-Earls… - International …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives/purpose: Qualitative studies on bilingual individuals' perspectives can
inform research by identifying community understanding of lived phenomena and aiding in …