Rothman, Jason; Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria; Pascual y Cabo, Diego (Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The goal of this chapter is to lay out the central themes of heritage language
acquisition research adopting a formal/theoretical linguistic perspective.
Specifically, we aim to provide a detailed discussion of the nature of heritage
language grammars. In doing so, we will address the debates on how to explain
heritage speaker competence differences from monolingual baselines and more.
This ...