Understanding heritage language acquisition : some contributions from the research on heritage speakers of European Portuguese

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Autor(a) principal: Flores, Cristina
Data de Publicação: 2015
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/30561
Resumo: The present paper aims to contribute to our understanding of heritage language acquisition by focusing on the results of three studies on heritage speakers of European Portuguese living in Germany (Flores and Barbosa, 2014, Santos and Flores, 2013 and Rinke and Flores, 2014), thus highlighting the European perspective on this topic. The participants of these studies are second-generation immigrants who use their heritage language productively in their daily interactions. In particular it is argued that heritage speakers are highly proficient bilingual speakers who develop a particular linguistic knowledge because they are exposed to particular input conditions. In this sense, the proficiency of heritage speakers cannot be described as the outcome of a deficient, incomplete acquisition process, but rather as an instance of native language development.
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spelling Understanding heritage language acquisition : some contributions from the research on heritage speakers of European PortugueseEuropean PortugueseHeritage speakerNative speakerCliticsVP ellipsisInputSocial SciencesThe present paper aims to contribute to our understanding of heritage language acquisition by focusing on the results of three studies on heritage speakers of European Portuguese living in Germany (Flores and Barbosa, 2014, Santos and Flores, 2013 and Rinke and Flores, 2014), thus highlighting the European perspective on this topic. The participants of these studies are second-generation immigrants who use their heritage language productively in their daily interactions. In particular it is argued that heritage speakers are highly proficient bilingual speakers who develop a particular linguistic knowledge because they are exposed to particular input conditions. In this sense, the proficiency of heritage speakers cannot be described as the outcome of a deficient, incomplete acquisition process, but rather as an instance of native language development.I would like to thank my colleagues Pilar Barbosa, Ana Lucia Santos and Esther Rinke for their invaluable contribution to the research presented in this paper and Ana Correia for revising the English language. I am also very grateful to the anonymous reviewers and the guest editors of this special issue, Pedro Guijarro Fuentes and Katrin Schmitz, for their helpful comments and suggestions. My thanks also go to the Portuguese funding agency FCT (Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia), who has supported the research on Portuguese-German Bilingualism through different research grants.ElsevierUniversidade do MinhoFlores, Cristina20152015-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/30561engFlores, C. (2015). Understanding heritage language acquisition. Some contributions from the research on heritage speakers of European Portuguese. Lingua, 164, 251-265. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2014.09.0080024-384110.1016/j.lingua.2014.09.008info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:52:11Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/30561Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:51:14.977125Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Understanding heritage language acquisition : some contributions from the research on heritage speakers of European Portuguese
spellingShingle Understanding heritage language acquisition : some contributions from the research on heritage speakers of European Portuguese
Flores, Cristina
European Portuguese
Heritage speaker
Native speaker
Clitics
VP ellipsis
Input
Social Sciences
title_short Understanding heritage language acquisition : some contributions from the research on heritage speakers of European Portuguese
title_full Understanding heritage language acquisition : some contributions from the research on heritage speakers of European Portuguese
title_fullStr Understanding heritage language acquisition : some contributions from the research on heritage speakers of European Portuguese
title_full_unstemmed Understanding heritage language acquisition : some contributions from the research on heritage speakers of European Portuguese
title_sort Understanding heritage language acquisition : some contributions from the research on heritage speakers of European Portuguese
author Flores, Cristina
author_facet Flores, Cristina
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Flores, Cristina
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv European Portuguese
Heritage speaker
Native speaker
Clitics
VP ellipsis
Input
Social Sciences
topic European Portuguese
Heritage speaker
Native speaker
Clitics
VP ellipsis
Input
Social Sciences
description The present paper aims to contribute to our understanding of heritage language acquisition by focusing on the results of three studies on heritage speakers of European Portuguese living in Germany (Flores and Barbosa, 2014, Santos and Flores, 2013 and Rinke and Flores, 2014), thus highlighting the European perspective on this topic. The participants of these studies are second-generation immigrants who use their heritage language productively in their daily interactions. In particular it is argued that heritage speakers are highly proficient bilingual speakers who develop a particular linguistic knowledge because they are exposed to particular input conditions. In this sense, the proficiency of heritage speakers cannot be described as the outcome of a deficient, incomplete acquisition process, but rather as an instance of native language development.
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