Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals

J Paradis - Journal of Child Language, 2023 - cambridge.org
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 …

Protracted development in child heritage Spanish: Evidence from inalienable possession

A Cuza, L Solano-Escobar - Second Language Research, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The present study examined the production of inalienable possession with body parts in
Spanish among 20 school-age children of Mexican-born parents born and raised in the …

Different variables hold varying significance from childhood to adolescence: Exploring individual differences in grammar development of Japanese heritage speakers

M Kubota, Y Goto, S Kurokawa, Y Matsuoka… - Studies in Second …, 2025 - cambridge.org
The current study examined the comprehension and production of classifiers, case marking,
and morphological passive structures among 414 child Japanese heritage speakers (mean …

Schooling and language usage matter in heritage bilingual processing: Sortal classifiers in Mandarin

J Hao, M Kubota, F Bayram… - Second Language …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Mandarin sortal classifiers simultaneously encode semantic and grammatical form class
cues. Building on a second language (L2) study of Grüter et al. we used the same visual …

Phrasal verb production in child heritage speakers of English residing in Mexico: Chronological age, experience, and protracted development

A Cuza - International Journal of Bilingualism, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: We investigated the extent to which child heritage speakers of English in contact with
Spanish in Mexico accurately produce phrasal verbs, and if not, whether their difficulties are …

The interplay between syntactic and morphological comprehension in heritage contexts: The case of relative clauses in heritage Syrian Arabic

E Daskalaki, A Soto-Corominas, A Barisé… - Applied …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Previous studies show that even though monolingual children find subject relatives easier
than object relatives, their comprehension of object relatives can be facilitated by …

Acquiring morphology through adolescence in Spanish as a heritage language: The case of subjunctive mood

PD Thane - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2024 - cambridge.org
The present study tested Spanish heritage speakers'(HSs') production and selection of
subjunctive mood in volitional clauses. Four groups participated to expose the effects of age …

The role of parental characteristics, home language use, and schooling in children's Mandarin heritage language development in Canada

E Daskalaki, A Soto-Corominas, VY Xia… - Frontiers in Language …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction This study on child HL (heritage language) speakers of Mandarin examines the
associations between parental characteristics (attitudes and proficiency), children's HL use …

Heritage language use in the country of residence matters for language maintenance, but short visits to the homeland can boost heritage language outcomes

V Chondrogianni, E Daskalaki - Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This study examined how heritage children's experiences with the heritage language (HL) in
the country of residence (eg, children's generation, their HL use and richness) and the …

Subject position in Greek and Spanish monolingual and bilingual production: Exploring the influence of verb type and definiteness

A Giannakou, GP Georgiou - Language Acquisition, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This research study aims to capture linguistic variation in subject distribution in monolingual
and bilingual speakers of an understudied language combination of two null subject …