Recent research has identified language development in school-age heritage children as an
important yet missing link between child early bilinguals and adult heritage speakers. This …

This study investigates the representation and processing of written Chinese sentences
subject to a semantic condition (ie,“direction of change”) attached to the sentence-final …

Reference in extended discourse is vulnerable to delayed acquisition in early childhood.
Although recent research has increasingly focused on effects of linguistic, input, and …

Introduction This study on child HL (heritage language) speakers of Mandarin examines the
associations between parental characteristics (attitudes and proficiency), children's HL use …

Aims and objectives: This study investigates the effects of fine-grained aspects of input and
cross-linguistic influence on the placement of prepositional zai-phrase (zai-PP) in heritage …

This dissertation investigates whether English-dominant heritage speakers (HSs) of
Mandarin have selective advantages over proficiency-matched adult second language …

So far, there have been no significant studies in Canada or Saskatchewan that examine
sociolinguistic factors (such as language attitude, language use, and language exposure) as …

Prior studies have shown that heritage speakers (HSs) have an advantage over adult
second language learners (L2ers) in phonology and core aspects of syntax (eg, grammar …

Linguistic properties of bilingual input and their relations with acquisition outcomes are
being intensively studied in current research on early bilingual development. Motivated by …

An area of confusion among heritage speakers of Chinese is classifier epistemologies of
determining which classifier to use for functional and/or geometrical categories with nouns …