Does your regional variety help you acquire an additional language? Spanish Differential Object Marking in Northern and Southern Italians

S Perpiñán, S Montrul - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
Abstract This study investigates Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Italian speakers from
two dialectal areas–North and South Italy–learning Spanish. Southern Italo-Romance …

Micro-contact in southern Italy: Language change in southern Lazio under pressure from Italian

V Colasanti - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper explores a novel case of contact-induced change due to micro-contact within
Italy, where various Italo-Romance languages coexist (Standard Italian, Italiano Regionale …

Demonstrative systems are not affected by contact: Evidence from heritage southern Italo-Romance

S Terenghi - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
Deictic information is present in every language; yet, there are significant differences as to
how exactly such information is encoded, yielding different indexical systems across …

Toronto Heritage Italian (r): Maintaining homeland patterns

A Cristiano, N Nagy - Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies, 2024 - bells.uib.no
Contrary to experimental research, comparative variationist approaches find for heritage
speakers many cases of maintenance of the homeland grammar. We analyze patterns of …

Inter-generational attrition: Language transmission between long-term UK residents and heritage speakers of Italian on production of clitic pronouns

G Smith, R Spelorzi, A Sorace… - Linguistic Approaches to …, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
The phenomenon of language change in contact has been explored most significantly in
speakers of a language who migrate, while fewer studies explore how language is affected …

Ethical concerns for theoretical research in linguistics: issues and best practices

P Chandra, R D'Alessandro, MT Putnam - Linguistics, 2024 - degruyter.com
Although formal, eg, generative, approaches to linguistic inquiry are primarily concerned
with the analysis of structural patterns, ethical concerns for the elicitation and documentation …

[PDF][PDF] Demonstrative systems are not affected by contact: Evidence from heritage southern Italo-Romance. Languages 7 (3). 201

S Terenghi - 2022 - academia.edu
Deictic information is present in every language; yet, there are significant differences as to
how exactly such information is encoded, yielding different indexical systems across …

A complex solution to an unsolvable problem?

R D'Alessandro - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
One of the foci of the keynote article by Grenoble & Osipov (2023; henceforth G&O) is the
long-standing problem of eliciting data from minority speakers and identifying the baseline …

[HTML][HTML] Non-monotonic functional sequences: A new metric for complexity in heritage languages

R D'Alessandro, S Terenghi - Formal approaches to complexity …, 2024 - books.google.com
This paper presents some evidence that language change in heritage languages (and
beyond) systematically responds to general factors of language design when it comes to …

Differential object marking in Apulia: A descriptive overview

L Andriani - Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia, 2023 - raco.cat
This article describes the distribution of Differential Object Marking in Puglia/Apulia
(Southeast Italy), where both Upper-Southern (Pugliese/Apulian) and Extreme-Southern …