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A Prolegomenon to the Construct of the Native Speaker: Heritage Speaker Bilinguals are Natives Too!
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This Forum challenges the generally accepted position in the linguistic sciences—conscious or not—that monolingualism and nativeness are essentially synonymous in an exclusive way. We discuss two consequences of our position that naturalistic bilinguals and multilinguals exposed to a language in early childhood are also native speakers: (i) that bi-/multilinguals have multiple native languages; and (ii) nativeness can be applicable to a state of linguistic knowledge that is characterized by significant differences to the monolingual baseline.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rothman, J., & Treffers-Daller, J.
- Venue
- Applied Linguistics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2014-01-29
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 93-98
- ISSN
- 0142-6001 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-450X
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- W2136884820
- Cited by
- 269
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 87.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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