What modulates the acquisition of difficult structures in a heritage language? A study on Portuguese in contact with French, German and Italian

Several studies on heritage language (HL) acquisition investigate a single linguistic structure, showing how language exposure or cross-linguistic effects affect its acquisition. Here, we consider HL speaking children’s mastery of several linguistic structures using a cloze-test. We examine how thei...

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Main Author: Torregrossa, Jacopo (author)
Other Authors: Flores, Cristina (author), Rinke, Esther (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2022
Subjects:
heritage Portuguese
morphosyntactic proficiency
cross-linguistic effects
cloze-test
language exposure
heritage language instruction
Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas
Social Sciences
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1822/78663
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/78663

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https://hdl.handle.net/1822/78663

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