In this paper, we bring to the attention of the linguistic community recent research on
heritage languages. Shifting linguistic attention from the model of a monolingual speaker to …

A heritage language is a sociopolitically minority and/or minoritized language acquired as
the first or one of the first languages in a bilingual or multilingual context. Heritage …

1. Language learning at school 132 1.1 Monolingual children 132 1.2 Bilingual children 136
2. L1 attrition in minority-language speaking children 139 2.1 Inuktitut-speaking children in …

This article reports on a survey of heritage language learners (HLLs) across different
heritage languages (HLs) and geographic regions in the United States. A general profile of …

Heritage speakers are people raised in a home where one language is spoken who
subsequently switch to another dominant language. The version of the home language that …

This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers,
or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from …

In this introduction to the special issue on Romance languages as heritage languages, I aim
to contextualize the scope of this issue and the contribution it makes to the emerging field of …

Modeling the competence grammar of heritage speakers who exhibit low proficiency in their
L1 represents a significant challenge for generative and experimental approaches to …

An increasing trend in many postsecondary foreign language classes in North America is
the presence of heritage language learners. Heritage language learners are speakers of …

This study presents and analyzes the comprehension of relative clauses in child and adult
speakers of Russian, comparing monolingual controls with Russian heritage speakers (HSs) …