Table of contents
Acknowledgements
VII
Introduction: Two sides of one coin? The relevance of first language attrition for the acquisition of heritage languages
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Definiteness in Wenzhounese Chinese in the Netherlands and in China: Evidence for generational change in two locations
15
Effects of first language attrition on heritage language input and ultimate attainment: Two generations of Turkish immigrants in the UK
33
Not in the mood: Frequency effects in heritage speakers’ subjunctive knowledge
71
Word order variation in heritage languages: Subject shift and object shift in Norwegian
99
Language contact: Gender agreement in Spanish L2 learners and heritage speakers
125
How do parental input and socio-economic status account for differences within and between the cohorts?
151
Heritage and non-heritage bilinguals: The role of biliteracy and bilingual education
171
High sensitivity to conceptual cues in Turkish heritage speakers with dominant German L2: Comparing semantics-morphosyntax and pragmatics-morphosyntax interfaces
197
The Frequency Code and gendered attrition and acquisition in the German-English heritage language community in Vancouver,
Canada
229
Does extensive L2 exposure trigger L1 attrition of perfective and durative aspect marking in Mandarin Chinese?
255
Index
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