32.680, Books: Vulnerability in heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands: van Osch

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:05:54
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Vulnerability in heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands: van Osch

 


Title: Vulnerability in heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands 
Subtitle: An interplay between language-internal and language-external factors 
Series Title: LOT Dissertations Series  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/vulnerability-in-heritage-speakers-of-spanish-in-the-netherlands 


Author: Brechje van Osch

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933264 Pages: 255 Price: Europe EURO 33


Abstract:

This dissertation investigates the acquisition of Spanish as a heritage
language from a linguistic perspective. The main objective is to locate and
explain vulnerability in heritage grammars. The relative vulnerability of
internal and external interfaces is tested in a unique and novel way, namely
by comparing interfaces within phenomena, so as to keep other possibly
intervening variables constant. Data from acceptability judgment tasks and
elicited production tasks targeting mood and subject position reveal that
syntax is the most robust domain, while the external interface between syntax
and discourse-pragmatics is most vulnerable, in line with the Interface
Hypothesis.

This thesis moreover provides an important contribution to the field by
investigating a relatively understudied population of heritage speakers, and
shows that the specific socio-linguistic circumstances of the host country, as
well as the linguistic properties of the majority language spoken there, can
have important effects on the heritage language. Others variables, such as the
specific task that is used, the type of knowledge that is targeted (implicit
or explicit), the amount of input received in early childhood, the age at
which testing takes place (in childhood vs. in adulthood), and the age of
onset of the weaker language (heritage vs. L2 speakers) are also shown to
influence the degree and the type of vulnerability. As such, this dissertation
demonstrates that heritage language acquisition is a highly complex
phenomenon, in which various language-internal and language-external factors
are intertwined in an intricate way.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)


Written In: English  (eng)

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