Bilingual Language Acquisition: Subjects in English and Spanish

By Carmen Silva-Corvalán. 2014

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Heritage language development: Connecting the dots (2018, background): “Silva-Corvalán (2014) found that the mastery of the pragmatic constraints on subject expression in Spanish lagged behind in the bilingual children studied. Interestingly, the children displayed some of the same patterns attested in the adult heritage speakers reported in Silva-Corvalán (1994), a fin”
Exposure and input in bilingual development (2017, background): “…that amounts of exposure to a given language can change dramatically in a bilingual child’s life when parents divorce, when a nanny or babysitter who speaks the minority language leaves the family circle, when the child enters day care or the regular school system, and so on (Silva-Corvalán, 2014).”
The Acquisition of Heritage Languages: The bilingual development of heritage speakers (2015, background): “Estimated percentage of daily input in Spanish and English in the language development of two simultaneous bilingual siblings (adapted from Silva-Corvalán 2014 ).”
Understanding heritage languages (2019, background): “…studies documenting the loss of linguistic abilities in heritage speakers over their early lifetime (e.g., Anderson, 1999; Merino, 1983; Silva-Corvalán, 2003, 2014), or 2) a comparison of the abilities of heritage-speaker children vs. adults (e.g., Montrul, 2016; Polinsky, 2011, 2018a).”