This paper intends to provide some speculative remarks on how consistency and continuity
in language use practices within and across contexts inform heritage language acquisition …

Building lexical knowledge is one of the most fundamental developments in early childhood;
as such development is associated with children's later academic achievement and other …

Although cross-linguistic influence at the level of morphosyntax is one of the most intensively
studied topics in child bilingualism, the circumstances under which it occurs remain unclear …

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 …

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 …

While it is known that heritage speakers diverge from the homeland baseline, there is still no
consensus on the mechanisms triggering this divergence. We investigate the impact of two …

The current study investigated the mechanisms of heritage language (HL) development with
a focus on case morphology. First, the effects of cross-linguistic influence (ie, the influence of …

This study examines when the vocabulary knowledge of Japanese heritage speakers (HSs;
N= 427, M age= 9.96, female= 213) begins to diverge from monolingual counterparts (N …

Purpose: This study examines the extent to which language skills of adult speakers of
heritage language (HL) English in a Hebrew-speaking society are affected by individual HL …

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) …