This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers,
written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of …

With a growing interest in heritage languages from researchers of bilingualism and linguistic
theory, the field of heritage-language studies has begun to build on its empirical …

This paper integrates research on child simultaneous bilingual acquisition more directly into
the heritage language acquisition literature. The child simultaneous bilingual literature …

Research on second language acquisition and bilingual development strongly suggests that
when a previously monolingual speaker becomes multilingual, the different languages do …

Language change as a result of language contact is studied in many different ways using a
number of different methodologies. This article provides an overview of the main …

This paper discusses the interplay between acquisition and theory construction. It endeavors
to show how a more direct and crucially bi‐directional relationship between formal linguistic …

Most studies on bilingual language development focus on children's second language (L2).
Here, we investigated first language (L1) development of Polish-English early migrant …

In this article, we propose that elements of heritage language grammars—both in the form of
axiomatic features and larger combined representational units—are not easily lost over the …

Several studies on heritage language (HL) acquisition investigate a single linguistic
structure, showing how language exposure or cross-linguistic effects affect its acquisition …

This paper investigates the morphosyntax of number and gender agreement in English-
dominant heritage speakers of Spanish. Our study builds on the experimental paradigm of …