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Publication details [#60261]

Velázquez, Isabel, Marisol Garrido and Mónica Millán. 2015. Heritage speakers of Spanish in the US Midwest: reported interlocutors as a measure of family language relevance. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 36 (4) : 386–403.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family conversation | language maintenance | language use | minority language | mother-child conversation

Language as a subject

Spanish, American

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study states that the earlier recorded grandiosity of the mother for intergenerational minority language transmission expands into young adulthood by offering chances for use and motivation for heritage language preservation, as exemplified by heritage Spanish interlocutors in the US Midwest.