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 …

Abstract Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature.
Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) …

Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in
Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also …

How do children develop bilingual competence? Do bilingual children develop language in
the same way as monolinguals? Set in the context of findings on language development …

The analysis of data in which multiple languages are represented has gained popularity
among computational linguists in recent years. So far, much of this research focuses mainly …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …

This chapter describes the general life course of the Turkish language as an immigrant
variety in Western Europe in its first 50 years. It provides a comprehensive overview of the …

Word-level language detection is necessary for analyzing code-switched text, where
multiple languages could be mixed within a sentence. Existing models are restricted to code …

This paper introduces a new, concept-based method for measuring variation in the use and
success of loanwords by presenting the results of a case-study on 149 English person …

Mainstream grammatical theory and traditional grammaticography concentrate on single
languages or varieties, which are conceptualised as pre-existing, distinct entities and …