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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Aalberse, Suzanne (Autor), Backus, Ad (Autor), Muysken, Pieter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Colección:Studies in bilingualism ; 58.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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