This article focuses on the construct of language dominance in bilinguals and the ways in
which this construct has been operationalized. Language dominance is often seen as …

Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

This study contributes to ongoing discussions on how measures of lexical diversity (LD) can
help discriminate between essays from second language learners of English, whose work …

Gender has been extensively studied in Spanish heritage speakers. However, lexical
frequency effects have yet to be explored in depth. This study aimed to uncover the extent to …

Language dominance is a multidimensional construct comprising several distinct yet
interrelated components, including language proficiency, exposure and use. The exact …

Aims and Objectives: This study explores Spanish heritage speakers'(HSs) knowledge of
clitic climbing and the (extra-) linguistic factors that modulate it. Design: Heritage speakers of …

This paper reports on an experimental study investigating the acquisition of grammatical
gender in Russian by heritage speakers living in Norway. The participants are 54 …

The current study examines the relationship between bilingual children's dual language
experience (ie language input, language output and vocabulary proficiency), and their social …

Along with declaratives and interrogatives, imperatives are one of the three major clause
types of human language. In Spanish, imperative verb forms present poor morphology, yet …

This study investigates the acquisition of subject placement in unergative and unaccusative
predicates among heritage speakers of Spanish by addressing two constraints ruling the …