The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages

The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages
Author: Rajiv Rao
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2024-02-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781108833103

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The first book-length treatment of the phonetics and phonology of heritage languages, spanning a range of linguistic areas and communities.

Heritage Languages and Their Speakers

Heritage Languages and Their Speakers
Author: Maria Polinsky
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2018-08-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781107047648

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A pioneering study of heritage languages, from a leading scholar in this area of study world-wide.

Phonetics and Phonology in Multilingual Language Development

Phonetics and Phonology in Multilingual Language Development
Author: Ulrike Gut,Romana Kopečková,Christina Nelson
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781108998710

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This Element focuses on phonetic and phonological development in multilinguals and presents a novel methodological approach to it within Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). We show how phonetic and phonological development is feature-dependent and inter-connected and how learning experience affects the process.

Heritage Languages

Heritage Languages
Author: Suzanne Aalberse,Ad Backus,Pieter Muysken
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2019-11-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027261762

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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 speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special status. They have received a lot of scholarly attention and provide a link between academic concerns and educational issues. This book takes a language contact perspective: we consider heritage languages from the perspective of their history, their structural properties, and their interaction with other surrounding languages.

Germanic Heritage Languages in North America

Germanic Heritage Languages in North America
Author: Janne Bondi Johannessen,Joseph C. Salmons
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2015-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027268198

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This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of ‘heritage language’: acquisition, attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and the lexicon, in addition to work on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and contact settings. With this, the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches, synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features, such as V2, gender and agreement in the nominal system, and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English, similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.

Heritage Languages

Heritage Languages
Author: Naomi Nagy
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781316518229

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The first major comparison of heritage languages' variable grammar, this book uses quantitative methods to study three generations' speech.

The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

The Acquisition of Heritage Languages
Author: Silvina Montrul
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2016
Genre: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
ISBN: 1316457834

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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 language has become a central focus of study within linguistics and applied linguistics. This work centers on the grammatical development of the heritage language and the language learning trajectory of heritage speakers, synthesizing recent experimental research. The Acquisition of Heritage Languages offers a global perspective, with a wealth of examples from heritage languages around the world. Written in an accessible style, this authoritative and up-to-date text is essential reading for professionals, students, and researchers of all levels, working in the fields of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, education, language policies, and language teaching. Discusses examples and studies from heritage languages all over the world; Provides accessible explanations of linguistic terms; Explores the theories and research methods applied to heritage language acquisition. -- from back cover.

Heritage Language Policies around the World

Heritage Language Policies around the World
Author: Corinne A. Seals,Sheena Shah
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781317274049

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Heritage language policies define the context in which heritage languages are maintained or abandoned by communities, and this volume describes and analyzes international policy strategies, as well as the implications for the actual heritage language speakers. This volume brings together heritage language policy case studies from around the world, foregrounding globalization by covering five regions: the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. The countries profiled include the United States, Canada, Argentina, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Uganda, Namibia, Morocco, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji. This volume also highlights an expanded definition of ‘heritage language’, choosing to focus on individual and community identities, and therefore including both Indigenous and immigrant languages. Focusing specifically on language policy relating to heritage languages, the chapters address key questions such as Are heritage languages included or excluded from the national language policy discourse? What are the successes and shortcomings of efforts to establish heritage language policies? What is the definition of ‘heritage language’ in official usage by the local/regional government and stakeholders? How are these language policies perceived by the actual heritage language communities?