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Language Variation in Mandarin as a Heritage Language: Subject Personal Pronouns 传统汉语的语言变异:主语人称代词

Heritage Language Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-14 DOI: 10.1163/15507076-12340020

Xinye Zhang

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Code-Switching Knowledge as Heritage Grammar Attainment: A Case Study 语码转换知识作为传统语法素养的个案研究

Heritage Language Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-02 DOI: 10.1163/15507076-12340017

John M. Lipski

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The Interplay between Heritage Learners’ Prior Knowledge and Instruction on a Linguistically Complex Structure 传承学习者的先验知识与语言复杂结构教学的相互作用

Heritage Language Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-02 DOI: 10.1163/15507076-12340015

Melissa A. Bowles

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Complexity in Instructed Heritage Language Acquisition 后天语言习得的复杂性

Heritage Language Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-02 DOI: 10.1163/15507076-12340014

Julio Torres

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The Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition, edited by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke 《牛津语言损耗手册》，由Monika S. Schmid和Barbara编辑Köpke

Heritage Language Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-02 DOI: 10.1163/15507076-12340019

Jack E McWhorter

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Syntactic Complexity Measures as Indices of Language Proficiency in Writing: Focus on Heritage Learners of Russian 句法复杂性作为写作语言能力的指标:以俄语传统学习者为中心

Heritage Language Journal Pub Date : 2021-12-02 DOI: 10.1163/15507076-12340016

Olesya Kisselev, Aleksandr Klimov, M. Kopotev

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Phonological Complexity: Bernese Swiss German in Ohio and Misiones 语音复杂性:俄亥俄州和米西奥内斯的伯尔尼语、瑞士德语

Heritage Language Journal Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1163/15507076-12340013

Robert Klosinski, Andrew D. Hoffman

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Heritage Language Complexity Matters: The Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue 遗产语言复杂性问题:特刊编辑介绍

Heritage Language Journal Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1163/15507076-12340008

Oksana Laleko, Olesya Kisselev

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On the Many Dimensions of Complexity in Heritage Languages 论传统语言的多重复杂性

Heritage Language Journal Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1163/15507076-12340009

Oksana Laleko, Gregory Scontras

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Representational and Computational Changes in Heritage Language Grammars 传统语言语法的表征和计算变化

Heritage Language Journal Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1163/15507076-12340011

S. Montrul

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