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Publication details [#60831]

Paradis, Johanne and Ruiting Jia. 2015. The use of referring expressions in narratives by Mandarin heritage language children and the role of language environment factors in predicting individual differences. Bilingualism 18 (4) : 737–752.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | family conversation | language input | narrative, processing of | reference, processing of

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper examines first mention referring expressions for participants and entities in narratives, employed by Mandarin heritage language (HL) and monolingual children. Partial HL acquisition can differ across distinct linguistic subdomains (Montrul, 2008). Mixed modeling inquiries disclose that older arrival age, higher maternal education levels and a replete and varied Mandarin home milieu forecast stronger narrative results, also indicating a notable role for input in HL acquisition.