We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their
languages and present results from a large-scale, cross-linguistic study that took such a …

This paper reports on the prosody of rhetorical questions (RQs) and information-seeking
questions (ISQs) in German for two question types—polar questions and constituent …

German questions and statements are distinguished not only by lexical and syntactic but
also by intonational means. This study revisits, for Northern Standard German, how …

This study examines the phonetic realisation of the falling nuclear pitch accent that marks
corrective focus statements and wh-questions in Russian. An interactive dialogue-reading …

Heritage speakers' grammars are known to differ in systematic ways from the grammars of
monolingual speakers. The present study focuses on the properties of the to-date poorly …

Prosody is generally studied at a separate linguistic level from syntax and semantics. It
analyses phonetic properties of utterances such as pitch and prominence, and orders them …

Based on production data of yes/no-questions (ynq), our research shows that the
intonational grammar of ynq s of heritage speakers of Russian in the United States and in …

This article presents RuPro, a new corpus resource of prosodically annotated speech by
Russian heritage speakers in the US and monolingually raised Russian speakers. The …

Rudin (2018) and Rudin & Rudin (2022) make a typological generalization that languages
in which rising declaratives comprise non-canonical yes/no questions (YNQs), like English …

Heritage speakers (HSs) form a unique group of speakers due to the early acquisition of one
language at home (their HL) and the subsequent or simultaneous acquisition of another …