Heritage Languages

A language contact approach

Authors

Suzanne Aalberse | University of Amsterdam

Ad Backus | Tilburg University

Pieter Muysken | Radboud University Nijmegen

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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.

The chapter on Bilingual language use has been co-authored by Anne Verschik; the chapter on Processing has been co-authored by Gerrit Jan Kootstra; and the chapter on Papiamentu has been co-authored by Bart Jacobs.

[Studies in Bilingualism, 58] 2019. xix, 302 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.58

Table of Contents

List of tables | pp. xi–xii

List of figures | pp. xiii–xiv

List of abbreviations and grammatical glosses | pp. xv–15

Preface | pp. xvii–xx

Chapter 1. Heritage speakers and heritage languages | pp. 1–22

Chapter 2. History of the field of heritage language studies | pp. 23–42

Chapter 3. Social aspects of heritage languages | pp. 43–66

Chapter 4. Bilingual language use | pp. 67–86

Chapter 5. Methods for collecting heritage language data | pp. 87–109

Chapter 6. Studying variability in heritage language speaker populations and the base line | pp. 111–139

Chapter 7. Heritage language phenomena and what triggers them | pp. 141–160

Chapter 8. Grammatical models and research paradigms | pp. 161–182

Chapter 9. Language processing in multilingual speakers | pp. 183–202

Chapter 10. Heritage languages in a post-colonial setting: Focus on Papiamentu | pp. 203–223

Chapter 11. The political dimension of heritage languages: Endangered languages, language rights, and the preservation of diversity | pp. 225–245

Chapter 12. Technical terms used in this book related to heritage languages | pp. 247–262

References | pp. 263–295

Language index | pp. 297–298

Subject index | pp. 299–302

“Aalberse, Backus & Muysken provide a very informative, well researched dive into the field of heritage language through the lens of language contact. The concrete examples of understudied languages taken from recorded language corpora as well as the global perspective of the research makes this an especially distinctive work. This book will make a great addition to anyone interested in heritage languages and their speakers and language contact phenomena.”

Tyler Kimball Anderson, Colorado Mesa University, on Linguist List 31.3392 (4 November 2020)

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2021. You Can’t Fix What Is Not Broken: Contextualizing the Imbalance of Perceptions About Heritage Language Bilingualism. Frontiers in Education 6

Chen, Jia, Lin Wang & Youngsoon Kim

2023. Challenging journeys for minority language-speaking parents: teaching heritage language in inter-lingual families. International Journal of Multilingualism ► pp. 1 ff.

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2021. Syntactic Change in Contact: Romance. Annual Review of Linguistics 7:1 ► pp. 309 ff.

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2021. Addressing Challenges in Formal Research on Moribund Heritage Languages: A Path Forward. Frontiers in Psychology 12

di Salvo, Margherita & Naomi Nagy

2022. Chapter 12. Differential object marking in heritage and homeland Italian. In Variation in Second and Heritage Languages [Studies in Language Variation, 28], ► pp. 311 ff.

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2022. Göç ve Dil. MSGSÜ Sosyal Bilimler 2:26 ► pp. 625 ff.

Fridman, Clara, Maria Polinsky & Natalia Meir

2023. Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English. Second Language Research

Georgiou, Georgios P. & Aretousa Giannakou

2024. Acoustic Characteristics of Greek Vowels Produced by Adult Heritage Speakers of Albanian. Acoustics 6:1 ► pp. 257 ff.

Hutson, James, Pace Ellsworth & Matt Ellsworth

2024. Preserving Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Age: A Scalable Model for Cultural Heritage Continuity . Journal of Contemporary Language Research 3:1 ► pp. 10 ff.

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2021. Converbs in heritage Turkish: A contrastive approach. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 44:2 ► pp. 130 ff.

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2022. Language variation in a shifting community: Different patterns of noun incorporation in Modern Chukchi. International Journal of Bilingualism 26:5 ► pp. 620 ff.

Kaya-Soykan, Didem, Elena Antonova-Unlu & Cigdem Sagin-Simsek

2023. The production and perception of Turkish evidentiality markers by Turkish-German returnees. Applied Linguistics Review 14:2 ► pp. 251 ff.

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2023. Exploring Norn: A Historical Heritage Language of the British Isles. In Medieval English in a Multilingual Context [New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics, ], ► pp. 377 ff.

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2021. Discourse and Information Structure in Heritage Languages. In The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, ► pp. 691 ff.

Laleko, Oksana

2022. Word order and information structure in heritage and L2 Russian: Focus and unaccusativity effects in subject inversion. International Journal of Bilingualism 26:6 ► pp. 749 ff.

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2023. 5. The Roadmap of Heritage Language Research in North America. Publication of the American Dialect Society 108:1 ► pp. 95 ff.

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2021. Multilingual lexical transfer challenges monolingual educational norms: not quite!. Multilingua 40:6 ► pp. 791 ff.

Moro, Francesca R. & Gina Russo

2024. Family language policy in multilingual Filipino families in Italy. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development ► pp. 1 ff.

Nagy, Naomi & Marisa Brook

2020. Constraints on speech rate: A heritage-language perspective. International Journal of Bilingualism ► pp. 136700692092093 ff.

Olfert, Helena

2023. The concept of register in heritage language retention. Register Studies 5:1 ► pp. 52 ff.

Parafita Couto, M. Carmen, Charlotte Pouw, Rodi Laanen & Luis López

2024. The role of INFL in code-switching: a study of a Papiamento heritage community in the Netherlands. Frontiers in Language Sciences 2

Pavlou, Natalia & Kleanthes K. Grohmann

2021. Heritage Languages in Southeastern Europe. In The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, ► pp. 69 ff.

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2024. Introduction. In The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages, ► pp. 1 ff.

Rao, Rajiv & Sandro Sessarego

2020. Introduction. In Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 28], ► pp. 1 ff.

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Torres, Julio

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2021. Introduction to the special issue on Heritage languages & Bilingualism. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 44:2 ► pp. 99 ff.

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2021. Grammatical Aspects of Heritage Languages. In The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, ► pp. 579 ff.

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2021. Heritage Languages around the World. In The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, ► pp. 11 ff.

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2021. Research Approaches to Heritage Languages. In The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, ► pp. 373 ff.

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