This study tested the hypothesis that heritage speakers of a minority language, due to their
childhood experience with two languages, would outperform late learners in producing …

The present study investigates the acoustic correlates of the Spanish tap-trill phonological
contrast (/ɾ/-/r/) in the production of 40 Spanish heritage speakers and 20 L2 Spanish …

Research on the linguistic knowledge of heritage speakers has been concerned primarily
with the advantages conferred by heritage language experience in production, perception …

According to the Critical Period Hypothesis, successful language learning is optimal during
early childhood, whereas language learning outside of this time window is unsuccessful. In …

This paper reports on an acoustic analysis of the phonemic tap-trill contrast (/ɾ/-/r/) for first
and second generation speakers of Mexican Spanish who live in the Chicagoland area …

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 the phonetic and phonological knowledge of Spanish and English/l/by
early and late Spanish-English bilinguals along a continuum of language dominance. Forty …

The present dissertation has two main goals: 1) to provide a descriptive, acoustic
characterization of the heritage Spanish vowel system and 2) to assess the extent to which …

Despite abundant evidence of malleability in speech production, previous studies of the
effects of late second-language learning on first-language production have been limited to …

The present study examines the production of uptalk in Spanish and in English by Spanish
heritage speakers in Southern California. Following the L2 Intonation Learning Theory, we …