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 …

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 …

Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics outlines and evaluates the major approaches and methods
used in Arabic sociolinguistic research with respect to diglossia, codeswitching, language …

Heritage languages are non-dominant languages, sometimes with little prestige; their
speakers also speak one or more dominant languages of the country they live in. Heritage …

This paper presents the results of an eyetracking study that uses the Visual World Paradigm
to determine whether heritage speakers of Polish can use grammatical gender cues to …

Objectives: This study investigates (a) whether child heritage speakers produce more
gender mismatches in Spanish (un piedra “a-masc. stone-fem.”) than monolingual …

This paper presents an eye-tracking study using the Visual World Paradigm that tests
whether participants are able to access gender information on definite articles and deploy it …

Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: Second language researchers have
focused increasingly in recent years on “heritage language learners,” or adult learners who …

This study examines online processing and offline judgments of subject-verb person
agreement with a focus on how this is impacted by markedness in heritage speakers (HSs) …