Dominant Language Transfer in Spanish Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners in the Interpretation of Definite Articles

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Heritage language development: Connecting the dots (2018, background): “…or not with incomplete acquisition or actual attrition, are the quality of the input due to ongoing diachronic change (Lohndal & Westergaard, 2016) as well as majority language transfer (Montrul & Ionin, 2012), as well as frequency and complexity of particular structures (O’Grady et al., 2011).”
Terminology matters! Why difference is not incompleteness and how early child bilinguals are heritage speakers (2018, methodology): “For example, the Italian HSs had noticeable problems using articles with generic DPs, thus performing very similar to Spanish HSs in the US on comparable tasks (e.g. Montrul & Ionin, 2012).”