A heritage language is a sociopolitically minority and/or minoritized language acquired as
the first or one of the first languages in a bilingual or multilingual context. Heritage …

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 …

With a growing interest in heritage languages from researchers of bilingualism and linguistic
theory, the field of heritage-language studies has begun to build on its empirical …

The substantial uptick in research on heritage languages over the past three decades has
enhanced our understanding of the development of bilingual grammars throughout the …

A heritage language is the term given to a language spoken at home by bilingual children of
immigrant parents. Written by a leading figure in the field, this pioneering, in-depth study …

In this article, we propose that elements of heritage language grammars—both in the form of
axiomatic features and larger combined representational units—are not easily lost over the …

Several studies on heritage language (HL) acquisition investigate a single linguistic
structure, showing how language exposure or cross-linguistic effects affect its acquisition …

There has been a substantial amount of research on heritage language acquisition and
diachronic change. Although recent work has increasingly pointed to parallels between …

This study investigates the performance of 22 monolingual and 54 bilingual children with
and without specific language impairment (SLI), in a non-word repetition task (NWRT) and a …

This chapter contextualizes the methodological landscape of formal linguistic heritage
language studies, with a special emphasis on emerging, innovative trends. The chapter is …