Tense and Aspect in Spanish Heritage Speakers Living in Germany

Diaubalick, Tim; Guijarro–Fuentes, Pedro; Schmitz, Katrin

doi:10.1007/978-94-024-1932-0_3

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“…Our results converge with previous bilingual studies on aspect and provide decision time measurements for the sensitivity of HSs to aspect violations. HSs-Germany overall perform highly accurately as in previous studies (Diaubalick et al, 2020 for adult Spanish HSs in Germany; Dosi &Papadopoulou, 2019 for child HSs in Germany). In the present study, this is also reflected in their DTs indicating sensitivity to aspect violations.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…Other studies in heritage Spanish and Russian found that HSs have fully acquired and retained the features of verbal morphology associated with aspect and tense (e.g., for heritage Russian in the US: Isurin & Ivanova-Sullivan, 2008; for heritage Spanish in Germany: Diaubalick et al, 2020) in line with the view that HSs can be indistinguishable from the monolingual controls especially when the heritage language is the medium of instruction (Kupisch & Rothman, 2018). For example, several studies report that advanced or even less fluent HSs maintained mostly an error-free production of aspectual marking (Isurin & Ivanova-Sullivan, 2008;Laleko, 2010 for heritage Russian in the US; Diaubalick et al, 2020).…”

Section: Zooming In Minority Languages: Acquisition Of Aspect In Heri...mentioning

confidence: 63%

“…HSs' performance on aspect has been reported to be both divergent (e.g., Cuza et al, 2013;Lopez-Otero & Cuza, 2020;Montrul, 2002;Montrul & Perpiñan, 2011;Polinsky, 2008) and convergent (e.g., Isurin & Ivanova-Sullivan, 2008;Kupisch & Rothman, 2018;Diaubalick et al, 2020) to the language of monolingual controls.…”

Section: Zooming In Minority Languages: Acquisition Of Aspect In Heri...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With respect to the role of the majority language, HSs have been found to exhibit cross-linguistic influence from their dominant language when the latter encodes aspect morphologically differently from the heritage one (e.g., Cuza et al, 2013 for Spanish HSs in the US). In studies where the dominant language does not encode aspect morphologically, HSs exhibited high acquisition rates (Diaubalick et al, 2020 for Spanish HSs in Germany). The latter finding may be associated with the fact that there is no influence to hinder or delay acquisition in the heritage language (see Cuza et al, 2013 andTsimpli, 2017 for discussion).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Aspect in Heritage Greek: evidence from elicited production and online judgments

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2021

Applied Psycholinguistics

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This study tests grammatical aspect in adult Heritage Speakers (HSs) of Greek in Germany (HSs-Germany) and the US (HSs-US), a topic which has not been investigated before for this language, exploring the role of the dominant language and the default value as an acquisition strategy. In an oral elicitation task (Experiment 1) targeting the production of aspectual marking in Greek, Greek monolinguals (MSs) and HSs-Germany exhibited ceiling performance, while HSs-US were significantly less accurate. Education in Greek reliably predicted their accuracy. In a speeded Grammaticality Judgment task (Experiment 2) targeting the comprehension of aspect in a Grammaticality x Aspect repeated measures design, similar results were obtained for the grammatical conditions as in Experiment 1. In ungrammatical conditions, accuracy on aspect was affected for all groups, and this was more evident for HSs. HSs-US were overall less accurate with the morphologically marked form (perfective). Decision Times (DTs) revealed that only MSs and HSs-Germany were sensitive to aspect violations exhibiting longer DTs. Education in Greek reliably predicted accuracy and DTs. The results are discussed within the realm of heritage languages, language contact, and aspect acquisition in Greek bilingual populations. Finally, certain novel verbal forms produced by HSs are also discussed.

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Section: Zooming In Minority Languages: Acquisition Of Aspect In Heri...mentioning

confidence: 63%

Section: Zooming In Minority Languages: Acquisition Of Aspect In Heri...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Zooming In Minority Languages: Acquisition Of Aspect In Heri...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Aspect in Heritage Greek: evidence from elicited production and online judgments

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Rizou

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2021

Applied Psycholinguistics

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“…Nevertheless, a criterion measuring fluency in words per minute has been analyzed in adult HSs of Spanish and Italian (cf. Schmitz and Scherger 2017;Diaubalick et al 2020).…”

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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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Tense and Aspect in Spanish Heritage Speakers Living in Germany

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Aspect in Heritage Greek: evidence from elicited production and online judgments

Aspect in Heritage Greek: evidence from elicited production and online judgments

French as a Heritage Language in Germany

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