Structured variation in child heritage speakers' grammars

N Shin - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Research on heritage language development in children can profit greatly by incorporating
insights from analyses of structured variation, which is defined as the interchange of …

(In) frequently asked questions: On types of frequency and their role (s) in heritage language variability

S Perez-Cortes, D Giancaspro - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, researchers have become increasingly interested in exploring frequency as
a source of variability in heritage speakers'(HSs) knowledge of their heritage language (HL) …

(Ir) regular mood swings: Lexical variability in heritage speakers' oral production of subjunctive mood

D Giancaspro, S Perez‐Cortes, J Higdon - Language Learning, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Previous research indicates that heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish produce both
subjunctive and indicative mood in expected subjunctive contexts. The present study sheds …

Lexical frequency and morphological regularity as sources of heritage speaker variability in the acquisition of mood

S Perez-Cortes - Second Language Research, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The present investigation examines intra-speaker variability in heritage speakers (HSs) of
Spanish by focusing on the potential effects of two variables in their acquisition of mood …

Child heritage speakers' acquisition of the Spanish subjunctive in volitional and adverbial clauses

M Dracos, PE Requena - Language Acquisition, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Spanish subjunctive mood (SUBJ) is said to be highly vulnerable in heritage language
(HL) acquisition. However, there is little controlled research on HL-speaking children …

Heritage speakers' production and comprehension of lexically-and contextually-selected subjunctive mood morphology

D Giancaspro - 2017 - rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu
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Effects of first language attrition on heritage language input and ultimate attainment

T Karayayla - Lost in Transmission: The role of attrition and input in …, 2020 - torrossa.com
This study investigates the spoken performance of UK based adult heritage speakers (HSs)
and first generation immigrants (LBs) of Turkish descent regarding the distribution of …

Heritage speakers' processing of the Spanish subjunctive: A pupillometric study

P López-Beltrán, PE Dussias - Linguistic Approaches to …, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
We investigated linguistic knowledge of subjunctive mood in heritage speakers of Spanish
who live in a long-standing English-Spanish bilingual community in Albuquerque, New …

Re-examining the role of mood selection type in Spanish heritage speakers' subjunctive production

S Perez-Cortes - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
Verbal morphology is a particularly vulnerable domain in the grammars of Spanish heritage
speakers (HSs). Among the most frequently studied phenomena is mood selection …

Over, under and around: Spanish heritage speakers' production (and avoidance) of subjunctive mood

D Giancaspro - Heritage Language Journal, 2019 - brill.com
The present study explores the subjunctive mood production of 29 heritage speakers (HSs)
of Spanish (17 advanced proficiency and 12 intermediate proficiency) and 14 Spanish …