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Montrul, Silvina; Sanchez-Walker, Noelia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2013
We report the results of two studies that investigate the factors contributing to non-native-like ability in child and adult heritage speakers by focusing on oral production of Differential Object Marking (DOM), the overt morphological marking of animate direct objects in Spanish. In study 1, 39 school-age bilingual children (ages 6-17) from the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Montrul, Silvina – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
Many simultaneous bilinguals exhibit loss or incomplete acquisition of their heritage language under conditions of exposure and use of the majority language (Silva-Corvalan, 1994, 2003; Polinsky, 1997; Toribio, 2001; Montrul, 2002). Recent work within discourse-functional (Silva-Corvalan 1994) and generative perspectives (Sorace, 2000; Montrul;…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Semantics, Heritage Education, Form Classes (Languages)