We investigate whether dominance, language experience, and increased interaction have
an effect on the development of heritage bilingual children's knowledge of the discourse …

Studies have found that aspects of grammar that lie at the syntax–pragmatics interface, such
as the use of pronominal subjects in null-subject languages, are likely to undergo cross …

The present dissertation brings together research on heritage language acquisition and
bilingual education and makes inroads into the limited research on heritage language …

In an offline sentence comprehension task, we test the interpretation biases for null and
overt pronouns and anaphoric and cataphoric pronouns in heritage speakers (hs s) whose …

Cross-linguistically, monolingual children produce target-like inflected verb forms in their
speech much earlier than they are able to reliably distinguish between singular and plural …

Null subject acquisition is vulnerable to cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children. In this
study, two groups of English dominant bilingual children aged four to seven (heritage and …

Languages exhibit sociolinguistically conditioned variation that tends to change over time,
especially in situations of contact. The emerging field of developmental sociolinguistics …

Names: Colomina Almiñana, Juan José, editor.| Sessarego, Sandro, editor. Title: Language
patterns in Spanish and beyond: structure, context and development/edited by Juan J …