{"title":"Becoming and Belonging: Ethnic Identity Development of Young Children through Language Socialization","authors":"Youngho Seo","doi":"10.1163/15507076-12340027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-12340027","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article explores the role of language socialization in ethnic identity development among young U.S.-born Korean American children aged 4 and 5. The study design utilized an ethnographic approach to contextualize children’s overall language socialization at a community-based Korean heritage language school in California. The study examines how these children develop their ethnic identity while collectively learning Korean as a heritage language. Drawing on discourse analysis focused on social practices, the study analyzed classroom conversations between teacher and children, and between children. Findings show that learning Korean as a heritage language at a Korean heritage language school plays an important role in fostering the ethnic identity of young Korean American children. Moreover, they negotiate their ethnic identity as Korean American while using their Korean names and Korean honorifics in social interaction with others in the community. Theoretical perspectives and implications of these results are discussed.","PeriodicalId":424930,"journal":{"name":"Heritage Language Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117005392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teachers’ Perceptions of Heritage Language Learners: A Large-scale Survey Study on Dialect Variation, Expectations, and Assessment Needs","authors":"J.-H. Chi, Anne E. Donovan, Margaret E. Malone","doi":"10.1163/15507076-bja10009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Many case studies of heritage language learners (HLL s) have documented learners’ perceptions and experiences, including experiences of stigmatization in the classroom for use of a non-standard variation or for not meeting teachers’ expectations of an HLL. However, few have investigated teachers’ perceptions of their HLL s, and how these could address or illuminate documented negative learning experiences. The current study uses survey methodology to investigate language teachers’ language ideologies of heritage languages and perceptions of HLL s on a larger scale than previous efforts. The study is inclusive of teachers of different grade levels, types of classrooms, and, perhaps most importantly, different languages. By looking at a wide array of participants (N = 325), this study addresses the overarching question: How do language teachers perceive their HLL s in the classroom? The findings provide insight on teachers’ views of HLL s’ dialects, their expectations of learners, and the practical needs of teachers.","PeriodicalId":424930,"journal":{"name":"Heritage Language Journal","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126257497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lexical Frequency Effects on the Acquisition of Syntactic Properties in Heritage Spanish: A Study on Unaccusative and Unergative Predicates","authors":"Julio César López Otero","doi":"10.1163/15507076-bja10011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study investigates the acquisition of subject placement in unergative and unaccusative predicates among heritage speakers of Spanish by addressing two constraints ruling the distribution of subject placement (i.e., verb type and focus) as well as by examining whether lexical frequency impacts their acquisition. Sixty-three heritage speakers and twenty-five Spanish-dominant bilinguals completed an oral elicited production task and an acceptability judgment task. Results show that verb type constraints in the heritage speakers are shaped by their proficiency and self-reported lexical frequency: more proficient heritage speakers rated VS sentences higher than their lower-proficient counterparts, and more instances of VS sentences were produced with more frequent unaccusative verbs. Focus constraints only impact the heritage speakers’ acceptability: in narrow focus contexts, heritage speakers rate SV higher than VS sentences. Lexical frequency effects in unaccusative predicates are argued to be the result of spell-outs favoring compatible linear orders as a way to reduce computational costs.","PeriodicalId":424930,"journal":{"name":"Heritage Language Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133337204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lost in Transmission: The Role of Attrition and Input in Heritage Language Development, edited by Bernhard Brehmer and Jeanine Treffers-Daller","authors":"David Natvig","doi":"10.1163/15507076-bja10010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424930,"journal":{"name":"Heritage Language Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129275323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amplifying Latinx Students’ Voices about Bilingual Experiences: A Critical Metaphor Analysis","authors":"Dalia Magaña, Lorraine Ramos","doi":"10.1163/15507076-bja10008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study amplifies Latinx students’ voices about their bilingual experience in a Spanish in the U.S. course. We use conceptual metaphor theory to analyze how students conceptualize their bilingualism and reinforce or resist present language ideologies. The data consists of 50 writing samples: 25 autobiographical narratives and 25 sets of blog commentaries. We found 356 language-related conceptual metaphors. The most common framing was Spanish as a natural resource (e.g., root or plant), vulnerable to dissipating if neglected. Both English and Spanish are referred to as tools for success (e.g., opens doors). Students use journey metaphors to discuss the challenges of learning English, and describe English as an opponent. Finally, they personify language to express the “higher value” of bilinguals, potentially criticizing monolinguals. Understanding how students conceptualize their language situations and express ideologies through metaphor leads to a deeper understanding of their bilingual experiences. These findings also have implications for tailoring language pedagogy.","PeriodicalId":424930,"journal":{"name":"Heritage Language Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125656326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Community Norms and Lexical Frequency Shape U.S. Bilingual Children’s Subject Pronoun Expression","authors":"Sa Lease, Naomi L. Shin, Emily Bird-Brown","doi":"10.1163/15507076-bja10007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study explores variable Spanish subject pronoun expression (e.g., yo veo ~ veo) in Spanish-English speaking children in different regions of the United States (U.S.): Los Angeles (LA), California, and the Tri-Cities area of the state of Washington. We also compare the U.S. children to monolingual Spanish-speaking children in Mexico. Binary logistic regression analyses of 2,064 verb tokens produced by nine U.S. children and nine children in Mexico, ages 5;11 to 7 years old, show that the children are sensitive to linguistic factors that typically influence children’s Spanish subject pronoun expression in their respective communities. In addition, we find that the LA children’s subject pronoun expression is predicted by lexical frequency. A subsequent analysis of the LA children’s frequent verbs uncovers two phrases with high degrees of prefabrication, yo creo and yo no sé, which, we argue, obscure the LA children’s sensitivity to Reference, all while acting as central exemplars of a [1sg+cognitive verb] construction.","PeriodicalId":424930,"journal":{"name":"Heritage Language Journal","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124224169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of English-Spanish Language Contact on North Midland /u/ Production","authors":"Laura D. Cummings Ruiz","doi":"10.1163/15507076-12340028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-12340028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Monolingually-raised English speakers in the North Midland region of the United States have been found to produce a centralized or fronted /u/, despite it not being a standard feature of the region. The production of this relatively novel sound in bilingual contexts, as is the case of English-Spanish bilingual communities in the Chicagoland area, is not currently well-understood. In order to examine the effect of language contact and phonetic transfer on bilinguals’ speech, 20 adult heritage speakers from the Chicagoland area were recorded while producing /u/ in English and Spanish. 20 formant values at equidistant points from these vowels were taken and then analyzed using a generalized additive mixed-effects model (GAMM). The results of the GAMM and its visualization showed that, overall, the heritage speakers produced a fronted /u/ when speaking English but maintained a backed production of /u/ when speaking Spanish. These results suggest that bilingual heritage speakers are participating in the sound change of the North Midland, while successfully separating its influence from their Spanish speech.","PeriodicalId":424930,"journal":{"name":"Heritage Language Journal","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124570135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Data on Language Change: Compositional Definiteness in American Norwegian","authors":"Yvonne van Baal","doi":"10.1163/15507076-bja10005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study investigates language change in American Norwegian (AmNo), a heritage language with a long migration and research history. Specifically, the paper examines the co-occurrence of a prenominal determiner and a suffixed article in modified definite phrases, known as compositional (or double) definiteness (CD). Recordings from three different points in time, recently made available in the Corpus of American Nordic Speech (Johannessen, 2015), are used to track historical developments. The data show that previous generations of speakers use CD in a homeland-like manner. Present-day speakers, on the other hand, frequently omit the determiner, which reflects a language change in this generation. I suggest that this innovation is preceded by a shift in the distributional frequency of exceptions to CD, which is intertwined with changes in language maintenance in the communities. Together, these factors contribute to the timing of the language change.","PeriodicalId":424930,"journal":{"name":"Heritage Language Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127845738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multilingual La La Land: Language Use in Sixteen Greater Los Angeles Communities, edited by Claire Hitchins Chik","authors":"Sarah Sok, J. Lee","doi":"10.1163/15507076-bja10006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":424930,"journal":{"name":"Heritage Language Journal","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114150916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optional Plural Agreement in Heritage Turkish Speakers’ Verb Form Choices","authors":"C. Felser, Serkan Uygun","doi":"10.1163/15507076-bja10004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Turkish 3rd person plural subjects are frequently used with verbs that are unmarked for number, with plural suffix omission influenced by semantic and word-order related constraints. Previous findings from judgment tasks indicate that monolingual and heritage Turkish speakers differ in the way they are affected by these constraints. This study builds and expands upon previous research by investigating the role of word order in more detail, and by examining whether the constraint weightings obtained from Uygun and Felser’s (2021) acceptability judgment data are able to predict speakers’ verb form choices in a timed sentence completion task. Besides confirming that word-order related constraints are information-structural in nature, our results show that heritage speakers over-produce plural-marked verbs in comparison to monolingual speakers, indicating between-group differences in constraint ranking. We interpret this as reflecting a tendency among Turkish heritage speakers to regularize the agreement system, which is not necessarily observed in metalinguistic judgment tasks.","PeriodicalId":424930,"journal":{"name":"Heritage Language Journal","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122826422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}