Heritage languages a language contact approach

"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 spec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aalberse, Suzanne
Other Authors: Backus, Ad, Muysken, Pieter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Series:Studies in bilingualism ; 58.
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Table of Contents:
  • Heritage speakers and heritage languages
  • History of the field of heritage language studies
  • Social aspects of heritage languages
  • Bilingual language use
  • Methods for collecting heritage language data
  • Studying variability in heritage language speaker populations
  • and the base line
  • Heritage language phenomena and what triggers them
  • Grammatical models and research paradigms
  • Language processing in multilingual speakers
  • Heritage languages in a post-colonial setting: focus on Papiamentu
  • The political dimension of heritage languages: endangered languages,
  • language rights, and the preservation of diversity
  • Technical terms used in this book related to heritage languages