The Development of Subject Position in Dutch-Dominant Heritage Speakers of Spanish: From Age 9 to Adulthood
This exploratory study investigates the knowledge of word order in intransitive sentences by heritage speakers of Spanish of different age groups: 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds and adults. In doing so, we aim to fill a gap in the heritage language literature, which, to date, has mainly focused on adult heritage speakers and preschool bilingual children. The results from a judgment task reveal that child- and adolescent heritage speakers do not entirely resemble monolingual age-matched children in the acquisition of subjects in Spanish, nor do they assimilate adult heritage speakers. The data sugge... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Schlagwörter: | child heritage speakers / heritage language acquisition / Spanish / Dutch / word order / subject position / L1 attrition / input quantity |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27027743 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4040088 |