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A roadmap for heritage language research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2019

Maria Polinsky  and
Gregory Scontras
Maria Polinsky*
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, Department of Linguistics
Gregory Scontras
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine, Department of Language Science
*
Author for correspondence: Maria Polinsky, E-mail: polinsky@umd.edu
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Our keynote, “Understanding heritage languages” (Polinsky & Scontras, 2019), and the commentaries to it make the following main points.

Keywords

heritage languagescomplexityinputprocessingrestructuringvariation
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 50 - 55
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