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Heritage Languages: A language contact approach
Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken
[
Studies in Bilingualism
58] 2019
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Chapter 6
Studying variability in heritage language speaker populations and the base line
Article outline
6.1
Introduction
6.2
Establishing the baseline and the problem of monolingual bias
6.2.1
Standard language grammar
6.2.2
Exchange students and other recently arrived native speakers
6.2.3
Transnational research design
6.2.4
Vary subject populations
6.2.5
Cross-generational family studies
6.2.6
Multiple baselines
6.2.7
Bilingual baselines
6.2.8
Summary
6.3
Factors in individual variation in the acquisition perspective: Timing, quality and quantity of the input
Age of onset of bilingualism
Time spent in the heritage country during childhood
Mono- versus multilingual households
Parental native language
Parental language strategy and modes of speech
Parental language use/language mode patterns outside the family
Caretaker background
Sibling birth order
6.4
Speaker characteristics, language use and language output
Language use patterns
Domains of use
Language aptitude
6.5
Social embedding in the multilingual speech community and the larger society
Schooling and literacy
Language prestige and language ideology
Settlement patterns and immigrant networks
Superdiversity
Additive versus subtractive bilingualism
Social class, gender, age, geographic background, register
6.6
Identity work, style shift, variation, and change
6.7
Measuring proficiency and assessing linguistic profiles
6.7.1
Cloze test
6.7.2
Fluency measures
6.7.3
Lexical proficiency tasks
6.7.4
Sociolinguistic background questionnaires
6.8
Conclusion