Heritage languages: A language contact approach
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Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special status. They have received a lot of scholarly attention and provide a link between academic concerns and educational issues. This book takes a language contact perspective: we consider heritage languages from the perspective of their history, their structural properties, and their interaction with other surrounding languages. The chapter on Bilingual language use has been co-authored by Anne Verschik; the chapter on Processing has been co-authored by Gerrit Jan Kootstra; and the chapter on Papiamentu has been co-authored by Bart Jacobs.
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There is a deficiency in scholarly literature about the complex interplay between proficiency in heritage languages and identity development among young immigrants.
“Despite the increasing recognition of the need of preserving legacy languages, there exists a noticeable deficiency in scholarly literature about the complex interplay between proficiency in heritage languages and the development of identity among young immigrants (Aalberse et al., 2019).”
From Heritage Language Maintenance Among Immigrant Youth: Factors Influencing Proficiency and Identity (2024) · cites this paper as Aalberse et al., 2019
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- Authors
- Aalberse, S., Backus, A., & Muysken, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Tilburg University (NL)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Venue
- Studies in Bilingualism
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Published
- 2019-11-12
- ISSN
- 0928-1533 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4211095305
- Cited by
- 136
- References
- 515
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 43 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 7
- FWCI
- 8.45
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- ruj.uj.edu.pl
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Studies in bilingualism (publishedVersion)
- Jagiellonian University Repository (Jagiellonian University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Multilingual Education and Policy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Keywords
- heritage language, language contact, bilingualism, language processing, Papiamentu, language status, language change, language history
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