Lost in Transmission: The role of attrition and input in heritage language development
Edited by Bernhard Brehmer and Jeanine Treffers-Daller
[Studies in Bilingualism, 59] 2020. vii, 276 pp.
Bernhard Brehmer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bernhard Brehmer plays a role.
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Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics
2020 Two sides of one coin? The relevance of first language attrition for the acquisition of heritage languages Lost in Transmission: The role of attrition and input in heritage language development, Brehmer, Bernhard and Jeanine Treffers-Daller (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
2017 Biscriptality and heritage language maintenance: Russian in Germany Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity, Peukert, Hagen and Ingrid Gogolin (eds.), pp. 99–121 | Chapter
The paper deals with the script choices made by bilingual Russian-German children when they are asked to compose texts in their Russian heritage language. Furthermore, the relationship between script choice and overall proficiency in the heritage language is investigated. We compare two different… read more
2017 Chapter 8. Lost in transmission? Family language input and its role for the development of Russian as a heritage language in Germany Integration, Identity and Language Maintenance in Young Immigrants: Russian Germans or German Russians, Isurin, Ludmila and Claudia Maria Riehl (eds.), pp. 225–268 | Chapter
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The paper deals with parental input and its role for heritage language maintenance by second generation speakers of Russian in Germany. Based on the data collected from one family, we investigate the realization of Voice Onset Time (VOT) in Russian by the parents and their… read more
2015 Let’s fix it? Cross-linguistic influence in word order patterns of Russian heritage speakers in Germany Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development, Peukert, Hagen (ed.), pp. 161–188 | Article
The paper analyzes verb placement of heritage speakers of Russian in contexts where German has a fixed position of the finite verb: V2 in declarative main clauses and V-final in subordinate clauses. Russian exhibits a neutral SVO order in both cases, but verb placement is in general dependent on… read more
2013 Capturing diversity: Linguistic land- and soundscaping Linguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches, Duarte, Joana and Ingrid Gogolin (eds.), pp. 45–74 | Article
Our paper discusses methods of capturing linguistic diversity in urban areas. One of these methods is “linguistic landscaping”, which we use not only in the traditional manner, but also with substantial additions to include the communicative process in which the signs are used. To compensate for… read more
2012 The formation and distribution of the analytic future tense in Polish-German bilinguals Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 297–314 | Article
The paper deals with the formation and use of the two variants of the analytic future tense in Polish by Polish-German bilinguals. Two groups of Polish-German bilinguals were examined: (i) early bilinguals who were already born in Germany or came to Germany before entering school (= heritage… read more
2012 The acquisition of gender agreement marking in Polish: A study of bilingual Polish-German-speaking children Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 81–100 | Article
This study investigates the acquisition of gender agreement marking in Polish noun phrases. It thus sheds light on the general acquisition of noun gender in Polish which, in most cases, can be predicted by the auslaut of the noun. Whether a child knows the gender of a given noun is indicated by… read more