Ninth Heritage Language Research Institute

From bilingual children to adult heritage speakers

Polinsky, Maria. 'Bilingual children and adult heritage speakers: The range of comparison.' Bilingual Children and Adult Heritage Speakers
Polinsky, Maria. 'Looking Ahead.' Advances in Spanish as a Heritage Language

Hoff, E., and Rumiche, R. L. (2012). Studying children in bilingual environments. In Hoff, E. (Ed.), Research Methods in Child Language: A Practical Guide. (pp. 300-316). Blackwell.
Unsworth, S. (2013). Current issues in multilingual first language acquisition. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 33, 21-50

Lohndal, Terje & Marit Westergaard. ‘Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or attrition?’ Frontiers in Psychology
Rodina, Yulia & Marit Westergaard. ‘Grammatical Gender in Bilingual Norwegian-Russian Acquisition: The role of input and transparency.’ Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Westergaard, Marit & Merete Anderssen. ‘Word Order Variation in Norwegian Possessive Constructions: Bilingual Acquisition and Attrition.’ Germanic heritage languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change

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