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Italian as a Heritage Language Spoken in the US
In: Theses and Dissertations (2018)
Abstract: The present study focuses on Italian as a heritage language spoken in the US by individuals bilingual in Italian and English, exposed to both language since birth. The subjects of the study are the members of six family nuclei, for a total of seven children as heritage speakers of Italian and as input receivers, and 6 parents as native speakers of Standard Italian and as input providers, living in different cities in Wisconsin and Illinois. The study specifically investigates the following structures: a) Gender assignment and gender agreement between determiner, noun and adjective; b) Auxiliary selection in the Italian compound past tense passato prossimo; c) Presence of the contrast between passato prossimo and imperfetto in the same narrative; d) Preferred past tense forms; e) Production of direct objects in the form of clitic or as a full lexical noun; f) Clitic placement in the contexts of use with negative imperative and with modal verbs; and g) Different uses of piacere verb. Eight tasks were administered, divided between oral and written modalities, of which oral tasks are in the form of elicitation, of picture description, of sentence building based on pictures, and of semi-free speech. Written tasks are in the form of forced-choice acceptability, binary acceptability, Yes/No acceptability judgment, and multiple-choice selection task. The study aims to investigate possible differences and similarities between the heritage language and the language of origin, under the assumption of the heritage grammar as an independent linguistic system with its own set of rules. The findings suggest that the nature of the differences between the two systems doesn't reside only in language performance, but also in language structure. Specifically, systematic differences between the two systems take place in grammatical adomains in which the source language displays degrees of variability and language specific properties. Therefore, these differences represent the heritage speakers’ attempt at regularizing language specific rules.
Keyword: acquisition; bilingualism; heritage; language; Linguistics; second language
URL: https://dc.uwm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2762&context=etd
https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/1757
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Input and Processing Factors Affecting Infants’ Vocabulary Size at 19 and 25 Months
In: Linguistics Faculty Articles (2018)
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Merging the female into the male, in the language of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. The case of The Waves and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
In: Lingue e Linguaggi; Volume 28 (2018); 211-225 (2018)
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International Symposium on Bilingualism
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An ERP investigation of individual differences in the processing of wh-dependencies by native and non-native speakers
Covey, Lauren. - : University of Kansas, 2018
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SLA in Uncertain Times: Disciplinary Constraints, Transdisciplinary Hopes
In: Working Papers in Educational Linguistics (WPEL) (2018)
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SECOND LANGUAGE LEXICAL REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING OF MANDARIN CHINESE TONES
Pelzl, Eric. - 2018
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Solving the mystery of the missing surface inflections
In: Language Acquisition Work by Anne Vainikka (2018)
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The Impact of Animacy and Positioning on the Production of Second Language Referring Expressions
In: Open Access Theses & Dissertations (2018)
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