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Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers : Insights from the RUEG group

By Allen, Shanley E. M.

Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers : Insights from the RUEG group

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This collective volume investigates linguistic dynamics in language contact, focusing on heritage speakers. The chapters provide new insights into the role of speaker repertoires and the distinction between contact-induced change and language-internal variation by reporting on corpus-linguistic studies across different communicative situations in heritage and majority languages. Conducted in the context of the DFG Research Unit "Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations" (FOR 2537), the studies focus on bilingual adolescent and adult speakers of German, Greek, Russian and Turkish as heritage languages, and of English and German as majority languages, and on monolingually raised adolescent and adult speakers of all five languages. Crucially, they are not restricted to standard language, but target broader speaker repertoires that cover informal as well as formal settings in both spoken and written modes. The contributions are united by their positive perspective on language contact and multilingual speakers, a comparative approach across several heritage and majority languages, and a shared methodology that captures variation within repertoires for both heritage speakers and monolinguals. The chapters take various theoretical standpoints, highlighting different facets of the data as well as its potential for enhancing our understanding of language contact and language variation.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
596
Release Date:
2025-07-01
Publication Date:
2025-07-01
Publisher:
Language Science Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3985541345
ISBN13:
9783985541348
Weight:
1296 g
Height:
175 cm
Width:
246 cm
Thickness:
42 cm
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