Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-examining the Age Factor

By S. Montrul. 2008

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory

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Heritage language development: Connecting the dots (2018, background): “I have stressed (Montrul, 2002, 2008, 2016) that the best way to show that a grammatical property was not mastered by a certain age is to conduct longitudinal studies of bilingual children as they develop their heritage and majority languages from birth to adulthood, a certainly daunting task that…”
Crosslinguistic influence at the syntax proper: Interrogative subject–verb inversion in heritage Spanish (2013, background): “…of the two languages (e.g. Müller & Hulk, 2001; Sánchez, 2003; Yip & Matthews, 2009), the role of age of onset of bilingualism (e.g. Bylund, 2009; Montrul, 2008; White & Genesee, 1996), and the effect of language dominance in the directionality and frequency of transferred elements (e.g. Kim,…”
The Acquisition of Heritage Languages: The bilingual development of heritage speakers (2015, background): “Positive correlation between age and profi ciency for L1 loss (Montrul 2008 , p. 266).”
Individual differences in child English second language acquisition Comparing child-internal and child-external factors (2011, background): “However, because early onset of full-time L2 learning could be associated with more precipitous decline or even loss of a minority L1 (Montrul, 2008; Wong Fillmore, 1991), it seems that the desire for early L2 exposure may come at the cost of maintaining the L1.”
Is the heritage language like a second language (2012, background): “…brings an advantage (in terms of grammatical proficiency) to heritage speakers with early acquired aspects of language, as maturational accounts of L2 acquisition would predict (DeKeyser, 2000; Hawkins & Chan, 1997; Hyltenstam & Abrahamsson, 2009; Long, 2007; Montrul, 2008b; among many others).”
Early language experience facilitates the processing of gender agreement in Spanish heritage speakers* (2013, background): “As far as linguistic experience is concerned, there are important differences and similarities between heritage speakers and L2 learners (Montrul, 2008, 2010).”
Back to basics: Incomplete knowledge of Differential Object Marking in Spanish heritage speakers* (2009, background): “Both Silva-Corvalán (1994) and Montrul (2004a) have shown that Spanish heritage speakers possess robust control of accusative and”
Understanding the nature and outcomes of early bilingualism: Romance languages as heritage languages (2009, background): “…often than not, they fail to demonstrate in adulthood age-appropriate levels of linguistic proficiency in the heritage language compared against monolingual norms, a phenomenon that to date has been characterized by the subsuming term incomplete L1 acquisition in the literature (see Montrul, 2008).”
Differential Object Marking in Child and Adult Spanish Heritage Speakers (2013, background): “…and were exposed to the majority language before age 5 have in fact a weaker command of the heritage language than sequential bilinguals, who enjoyed a period of heritage language dominance in early childhood, before they started elementary school (Montrul 2002, 2008; Kim, Montrul & Yoon, 2010).”
Gender and number agreement in the oral production of Arabic Heritage speakers* (2012, background): “The fact that heritage speakers over-generalize the masculine singular category is consistent with data from other heritage populations suggesting that masculine and singular are less marked in the acquisition of inflectional morphology (Albirini et al., 2011; Cornips & Hulk, 2006; Laleko, 2010; Mon”
Current Issues in Heritage Language Acquisition (2010, background): “However, the actual realization of such potential ultimately depends on many factors, including parental discourse strategies, status of the languages in the community, availability of a speech community beyond the family, attitudes toward the language, access to education in the language, and so on”
REANALYSIS IN ADULT HERITAGE LANGUAGE (2011, background): “This lack of acquisition would then continue into the adult language (see Montrul, 2002 , 2008 , for an insightful discussion).”
Dominant language transfer in adult second language learners and heritage speakers (2010, background): “A main difference between heritage speakers and L2 learners concerns mode of acquisition and experience, as discussed earlier (Montrul, 2008).”