Bilingual children are a more heterogenous group than their monolingual counterparts with
respect to the sources of variation in their language learning environments, as well as the …

This paper integrates research on child simultaneous bilingual acquisition more directly into
the heritage language acquisition literature. The child simultaneous bilingual literature …

Research on heritage language development in children can profit greatly by incorporating
insights from analyses of structured variation, which is defined as the interchange of …

Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in
Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also …

This study investigates child heritage speakers' Spanish direct objects. A task designed to
elicit direct objects was completed in Spanish and English by 40 child heritage speakers 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 …

Research on the bilingual development of refugee children is limited, despite this group
having distinct characteristics and migration experiences that could impact language …

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 …

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

This study investigates the role of parental input quality on the acquisition of Greek as a
heritage language in Western Canada. Focusing on subject use, we tested four groups of …