Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars
Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars

Author: Maria Polinsky

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-07-05

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 3985541078

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This collective volume breaks new ground in studies of linguistic complexity by addressing this phenomenon in heritage languages. It dismisses with the conception that heritage languages are less complex than their baseline or homeland counterparts and shows complexity trade-offs at various levels of linguistic representation. The authors consider defining properties of complexity as a phenomenon, diagnostics of complexity, and the ways complexity is modeled, measured, or operationalized in language sciences. The chapters showcase several bilingual dyads and offer new empirical data on heritage language production and use.

Heritage Languages and Their Speakers
Heritage Languages and Their Speakers

Author: Maria Polinsky

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-16

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1107047641

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

Language Complexity
Language Complexity

Author: Matti Miestamo

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9789027231048

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Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers from the conference Approaches to Complexity in Language, held in Helsinki, August 2005 – is the first collection of articles devoted to the topic. The sixteen chapters of the volume approach the notion of language complexity from a variety of perspectives. The papers are divided into three thematic sections that reflect the central themes of the book: Typology and theory, Contact and change, Creoles and pidgins. The book is mainly intended for typologists, historical linguists, contact linguists and creolists, as well as all linguists interested in language complexity in general. As the first collective volume on a very topical theme, the book is expected to be of lasting interest to the linguistic community.

Heritage Languages
Heritage Languages

Author: Naomi Nagy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1316518221

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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

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1107007240

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An authoritative overview of research into heritage language acquisition, covering key terminological and empirical issues, theoretical approaches, and research methodologies.

Russian as a Heritage Language
Russian as a Heritage Language

Author: Olesya Kisselev

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-04-16

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1040003842

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Russian as a Heritage Language: From Research to Classroom Applications brings together linguistically and pedagogically oriented research traditions in a comprehensive review of current Russian heritage language (HL) studies. Divided into three parts, the collection offers a variety of frameworks and approaches spanning research on HL speakers’ linguistic and pragmatic competence, literacy development, and sociocultural characteristics of Russian in diaspora. Presenting a wide range of new empirical findings, the volume explores topics at the forefront of HL studies, from assessment of HL learners’ linguistic competence and language attitudes to research on communities and institutional affordances impacting HL acquisition and maintenance. Each chapter connects current research with specific classroom applications, presenting Russian as a global language in various sociopolitical and majority-language contexts. Combining methodological rigor with theoretical insights across diverse areas of language study, Russian as a Heritage Language advances the field of HL pedagogy and serves as essential reading for HL educators and researchers as well as for linguists studying bilingualism.

Cultural and Linguistic Education in the Context of Migration
Cultural and Linguistic Education in the Context of Migration

Author: Isabelle Tulekian

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2024-07-09

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1036405869

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In a world on the move, where languages and cultures collide, the role of education in fostering integration, entrepreneurship, and mediation is more critical than ever. This book is an essential resource, offering a current and international perspective on the complex interplay between education and migration. Divided into two compelling sections, the first delves into the foundational aspects of education in the context of migration; the second section focuses on specific situations and case studies, where the entrepreneurship of migrant communities comes to life. Contributions from international academics who work closely with migrant communities provide a deep understanding of the challenges and their mitigation. In a time when migration is consistently on the rise, this book offers invaluable insights that can inform researchers and policymakers alike. It serves as a beacon of hope, demonstrating that education and mediation are the bridges to empowerment and cultural understanding.

Current Issues in Bilingualism
Current Issues in Bilingualism

Author: Mark Leikin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-11-22

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 940072327X

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As populations become more mobile, so interest grows in bi- and multilingualism, particularly in the context of education. This volume focuses on the singular situation in Israel, whose complex multiculturalism has Hebrew and Arabic as official languages, English as an academic and political language, and tongues such as Russian and Amharic spoken by immigrants. Presenting research on bi- and trilingualism in Israel from a multitude of perspectives, the book focuses on four aspects of multilingualism and literacy in Israel: Arabic-Hebrew bilingual education and Arabic literacy development; second-language Hebrew literacy among immigrant children; literacy in English as a second/third language; and adult bilingualism. Chapters dissect findings on immigrant youth education, language impairment in bilinguals, and neurocognitive features of bilingual language processing. Reflecting current trends, this volume integrates linguistics, sociology, education, cognitive science, and neuroscience.

The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition
The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition

Author: Paul A. Malovrh

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 1119261627

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A comprehensive, current review of the research and approaches to advanced proficiency in second language acquisition The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition offers an overview of the most recent and scientific-based research concerning higher proficiency in second language acquisition (SLA). With contributions from an international team of experts in the field, the Handbook presents several theoretical approaches to SLA and offers an examination of advanced proficiency from the viewpoint of various contexts and dimensions of second language performance. The authors also review linguistic phenomena among advanced learners through the lens of phonology and grammar development. Comprehensive in scope, this book provides an overview of advanced proficiency grounded in socially-relevant domains of second language acquisition including discourse, reading, genre-based writing, and pragmatic competence. The authoritative volume brings together the theoretical accounts of advanced language use combined with solid empirical research. Includes contributions from an international collection of noted scholars in the field of second language acquisition Offers a variety of theoretical approaches to SLA Contains information on the most recent empirical research that contributes to an understanding of SLA Describes performance phenomena according to multiple approaches to SLA Written for scholars, students and linguists, The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive text that offers the most recent developments in the study of advanced proficiency in the acquisition of a second language.

The Acquisition of Spanish
The Acquisition of Spanish

Author: Silvina Montrul

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9789027252975

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This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative grammar: nominal and verbal inflectional morphology, subject and object pronouns, complex structures involving movement (topicalizations, questions, relative clauses), and aspects of verb meaning that have consequences for syntax. The book argues that Universal Grammar constrains all instances of language acquisition and that there is a fundamental continuity between monolingual, bilingual, child and adult early grammatical systems. While stressing their similarities with respect to linguistic representations and processes, the book also considers important differences between these three acquisition situations with respect to the outcome of acquisition. It is also shown that many linguistic properties of Spanish are acquired earlier than in English and other languages. This book is a must read for those interested in the acquisition of Spanish from different theoretical perspectives as well as those working on the acquisition of other languages in different contexts.