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Are heritage speakers one step ahead in ongoing processes of diachronic change?...
Rinke, Esther; Weingärtner, Daniel; Flores, Cristina; Lago, Sol; Gomes, Juliana Novo; Bruera, MercedesThis study investigates whether heritage speakers of European Portuguese (EP) show a diachronically advanced behaviour in their comprehension of null object constructions. Based on a comprehension experiment, we compared heritage speakers to homeland speakers of EP, on the one hand and homeland speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) on the other, the latter representing a variety in which null objects have diach...
Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in b...
Flores, Cristina; Rinke, Esther; Torregrossa, Jacopo; Weingärtner, DanielThe present study analyses written narratives of 60 Portuguese-German bilingual children between 8 and 15 years living in Switzerland, in both their languages. Portuguese is the children’s heritage language (HL) and German the environmental language. The analysis focusses on the children’s lexical, morphological and structural knowledge in the verb domain (verb types, agreement morphology, verbal tense, word or...