Heritage Languages and Linguistics

Heritage Languages and Linguistics

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of heritage languages, covering theoretical linguistics, language education, and global policy perspectives.

Heritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual environment. These include immigrant languages, aboriginal or indigenous languages and historical minority languages. In the last two decades, heritage languages have become central to many areas of linguistic research, from bilingual language acquisition, education and language policies, to theoretical linguistics. Bringing together contributions from a team of internationally renowned experts, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of this emerging area of study from a number of different perspectives, ranging from theoretical linguistics to language education and pedagogy. Presenting comprehensive data on heritage languages from around the world, it covers issues ranging from individual aspects of heritage language knowledge to broader societal, educational, and policy concerns in local, global and international contexts. Surveying the most current issues and trends in this exciting field, it is essential reading for graduate students and researchers, as well as language practitioners and other language professionals.

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Table of Contents

 

 

Summary

i

 

Series page

ii

 

Title page

v

 

Copyright page

vi

 

Dedication

vii

  Contents ix
  Figures and Tables xii
  Contributors xvi
  Acknowledgements xviii
Introduction

 

Heritage Languages, Heritage Speakers, Heritage Linguistics
By Silvina Montrul, Maria Polinsky

1

Part I
Heritage Languages around the World

1

Slavic Heritage Languages around the Globe
By Bernhard Brehmer

13

2

Heritage Languages in Europe
By Tanja Kupisch

45

3

Heritage Languages in Southeastern Europe
By Natalia Pavlou, Kleantes K. Grohmann

69

4

Heritage Languages in China
By Linda Tsung, Lubei Zhang

91

5

Heritage Languages in Japan and Korea
By Hyun-Sook Kang, James Hye Suk Yoon

111

6

Heritage Languages in Israel
A Multilingual Tapestry with Hewbrew Threads
By Natalia Meir, Susan Joffe, Ronald Shabtaev, Joel Walters, Sharon Armon-Lotem

129

7

Heritage Languages in in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia
By Corinne A. Seals

156

8

Heritage Languages in Canada
By Naomy Nagi

178

9

Asian Heritage Languages in the United States
Chinese and Hindi Language Communities
By Shereen Bhalla, Na Liu, Terrence G. Wiley

205

10

The Vitality of Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States
By Maria M. Carreira

230

11

Germanic Heritage Varieties in the Americas
Social and Linguistic Perspectives
By Janne Bondi Johannessen, Joseph Salmons

252

12

Arabic in North America
By Abdulkafi Albirini

277

13

Heritage Languages in South America
By John M. Lipski

205

14

Language Attrition and Heritage Language Reversal in Returnees
By Cristina Flores

351

Part II
Research Approaches to Heritage Languages

15

Heritage Language Research and Theoretical Linguistics
By Elabbas Benmamoun

375

16

The Emergence of Heritage Language
A Case Study from Korean*
By William O'Grady, Chae-Eun Kim

399

17

Social Linguistic Approaches to Heritage Languages Speakers
By Andrew Lynch, Netta Avineri

423

18

The Psycholinguistics of Heritage Languages
By Jill Jegerski, Irina A. Sekerina

449

19

Contact Linguistics and Heritage Languages
By Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez, Lorena Sainzmaza-Lecanda

471

20

A Narrative-Ethnographic Approach to Research on Heritage Language Development
ByAgnes Weiyun He

499

21

Corpus-Based Methodologies in the Study of Heritage Languages
ByOlesya Kisselev

520

22

Current Trends and Emerging Methodologies in Charting Heritage Language Grammars
ByFatih Bayram, Grazia Di Pisa, Jason Rothman, Roumyana Slabakova

545

Part III
Grammatical Aspects of Heritage Languages

23

Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages
By Chalres B. Chang

581

24

Morphology of Heritage Languages
By Michael T. Putnam, Lara Schwarz, Andrew D. Hoffman

613

25

Syntax of Heritage Languages
ByTerje Lohndal

644

26

Semantics of Heritage Languages
By Tania Ionin

668

27

Discourse and Information Structure in Heritage Languages
By Oksana Laleko

691

28

Pragmatics in Heritage Languages
By Irina Dubinina

728
Part IV
Heritage Language Education

29

Elementary School Heritage Language Educational Options and Outcomes
By Kim Potowski

761

30

Community-Organized Heritage Language Programs
By Jin Sook Lee, Huay Chen Wu

777

31

Curricular and Programmatic Language Development Opportunities for University-Level Heritage Language Learners
By Sara Beaudrie

803

32

Instructed Heritage Language Acquisition
By Melissa A. Bowles, Julio Torres

826
33

Issues and Practices in Community-Based Experiential Learning for Heritage Speakers in the United States
By Paola Guerrero-Rodriguez, Adriana Ojeda, Diego Pascual y Cabo

851
34

Developing Spanish Heritage Language Biliteracy
By María Cecilia Colombi

867
35

Heritage Language Assessment
By Kimi Kondo-Brown

892
36

Embracing Opportunity in Heritage Language Revitalization
By Maria Schwedhelm, Kate Stemper, Kendall King

912
37

Heritage Language Planning and Policy
By Terrence G. Wiley

934
 

Index

958

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Published: Tuesday, March 22, 2022