Lexical and morphosyntactic variation in Persian heritage language outcomes

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Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI:10.1075/lab.21052.gha

Khadij Gharibi, Fatih Bayram, Gustavo Guajardo

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Abstract

Abstract Individual variation in heritage language (HL) outcomes does not seem to be random. Instead, this variation can be related to the specific exposure and use patterns heritage speakers (HSs) have with their languages in the contexts they reside. In this study, we present data from 38 child HSs of Persian in English dominant contexts (in New Zealand and the UK), their mothers as well as a control group of age-matched monolinguals in Iran. All participants completed a film-retelling task from which their lexical sophistication (LS) and clausal density (CD) were measured. In addition, the HSs’ mothers completed a sociolinguistic questionnaire for their children which was used to calculate proxies for language experiences. Out of the two linguistic measures, the HSs differed from monolinguals only in LS scores. Regarding the relationship between HSs’ linguistic scores and language experiences, Random Forest analyses showed HL literacy to be the most important variable for the CD scores; while it was the HSs’ age-at-testing for LS. The mothers’ scores were only important for the HSs’ LS scores. This study contributes to the ongoing discussions on the nature of HL development, outcomes and individual variation.

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波斯传统语言结果中的词汇和形态句法变异

遗传语言(HL)结果的个体差异似乎不是随机的。相反，这种差异可能与传统讲话者(hs)在其所居住的环境中使用其语言的特定暴露和使用模式有关。在这项研究中，我们提供了来自英语占主导地位的背景下(新西兰和英国)的38名波斯语高智商儿童、他们的母亲以及伊朗年龄匹配的单语对照组的数据。所有参与者都完成了一项电影复述任务，并测量了他们的词汇复杂程度(LS)和小句密度(CD)。此外，高智商儿童的母亲为他们的孩子完成了一份社会语言学问卷，用来计算语言体验的代理。在两种语言测量中，高智商者与单语者仅在LS得分上有所不同。随机森林分析结果显示，语言素养是影响语言体验的最重要变量;而这是hs对LS的年龄测试。母亲的分数只对HSs的LS分数重要。这项研究有助于对HL发展的本质、结果和个体差异的持续讨论。

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Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language

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3.20

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9.10%

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