Heritage Languages
A language contact approach
Authors
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.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of tables | pp. xi–xii
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List of figures | pp. xiii–xiv
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List of abbreviations and grammatical glosses | pp. xv–15
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Preface | pp. xvii–xx
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Chapter 1. Heritage speakers and heritage languages | pp. 1–22
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Chapter 2. History of the field of heritage language studies | pp. 23–42
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Chapter 3. Social aspects of heritage languages | pp. 43–66
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Chapter 4. Bilingual language use | pp. 67–86
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Chapter 5. Methods for collecting heritage language data | pp. 87–109
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Chapter 6. Studying variability in heritage language speaker populations and the base line | pp. 111–139
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Chapter 7. Heritage language phenomena and what triggers them | pp. 141–160
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Chapter 8. Grammatical models and research paradigms | pp. 161–182
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Chapter 9. Language processing in multilingual speakers | pp. 183–202
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Chapter 10. Heritage languages in a post-colonial setting: Focus on Papiamentu | pp. 203–223
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Chapter 11. The political dimension of heritage languages: Endangered languages, language rights, and the preservation of diversity | pp. 225–245
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Chapter 12. Technical terms used in this book related to heritage languages | pp. 247–262
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References | pp. 263–295
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Language index | pp. 297–298
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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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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFDM: Bilingualism & multilingualism
Main BISAC Subject
LAN020000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching