Code-Mixing in the Weak Language: A Case Study of the Simultaneous Acquisition of French, Italian and Spanish

Sivakumar, Abira; Müller, Natascha; Gil, Laia Arnaus

doi:10.1007/978-94-024-1932-0_7

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“…The same pertained to his HLs, Spanish and Italian (around 0.5% of intersentential CS each), i.e., CS was infrequent in both the ML and in the HL (cf. Schmeißer et al 2016;Sivakumar et al 2020a). With increasing age, intersentential CS was used more frequently, whereas the amount of intrasentential CS declined (cf.…”

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French as a Heritage Language in Germany

2021

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Research on child heritage speakers (HSs) has shown successful language acquisition, comparable to monolinguals, whereas research on adult HSs often claims incomplete acquisition. This seems to be an evident contradiction in the current state of research, which may be explained by a possible language shift during adolescence or adulthood, but which does not necessarily have to be equated with a lack of competence. In an overview of the existing studies on child and adult HSs of French in Germany, we show that HSs are not incomplete acquirers of French and we suggest theoretical and practical implications following these findings. Our aim is to show, first, that HSs of French in Germany are not unanimously disadvantaged compared with French speakers in countries where French is a majority language, and second, that complete acquisition is independent of language dominance, a notion that has received particular attention in studies on multilingual and HL acquisition.

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“…In this respect, one could argue that her German utterances in the French recordings cannot be considered examples of intersentential CS, but rather cases of turn-specific CS (cf. Sivakumar et al 2020a).…”

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