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Native Speakers, Interrupted: Differential Object Marking and Language Change in Heritage Languages

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"A heritage language is the term given to a language spoken at home by bilingual children of immigrant parents. Written by a leading figure in the field, this pioneering, in-depth study brings together three heritage languages - Hindu, Spanish, and Romanian - spoken in the United States. It demonstrates how heritage speakers drive morphosyntactic change when certain environmental characteristics are met and considers the relationship between social and cognitive factors and timing in language acquisition, bilingualism, and ...

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Native Speakers, Interrupted: Differential Object Marking and Language Change in Heritage Languages 2022, Cambridge University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9781107133372

Hardcover