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 …

Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

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

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 …

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 …

This paper discusses the interplay between acquisition and theory construction. It endeavors
to show how a more direct and crucially bi‐directional relationship between formal linguistic …

This paper provides a critical review of research on cross-linguistic interaction in the
phonetic and phonological development of young bilingual children. After presenting some …

Determining how and why adult outcomes of heritage speaker (HS) bilingualism differ from
monolinguals is difficult because it requires the reconstruction of developmental paths from …

Aims and objectives: In this study, we investigated crosslinguistic influence in the phonetic
systems of simultaneous bilinguals (2L1s) during adulthood. Methodology: Specifically, we …

A recurring question in the literature of heritage language acquisition, and more generally of
bilingual acquisition, is whether all linguistic domains are sensitive to input reduction and to …