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- Native Speakers, Interrupted
- Native Speakers, Interrupted
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 On Heritage Speakers as Native Speakers
- 2 Structural Changes in Heritage Language Grammars
- 3 Differential Object Marking
- 4 Language Change and the Acquisition of Differential Object Marking
- 5 The Vulnerability of Differential Object Marking in Three Heritage Languages
- 6 Differential Object Marking in Spanish as a Heritage Language
- 7 Differential Object Marking in Hindi as a Heritage Language
- 8 Differential Object Marking and Clitic Doubling in Romanian as a Heritage Language
- 9 Comparing the Three Heritage Languages
- 10 Intergenerational Transmission
- Implications
- References
- Index
7 - Differential Object Marking in Hindi as a Heritage Language
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 December 2022
- Native Speakers, Interrupted
- Native Speakers, Interrupted
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 On Heritage Speakers as Native Speakers
- 2 Structural Changes in Heritage Language Grammars
- 3 Differential Object Marking
- 4 Language Change and the Acquisition of Differential Object Marking
- 5 The Vulnerability of Differential Object Marking in Three Heritage Languages
- 6 Differential Object Marking in Spanish as a Heritage Language
- 7 Differential Object Marking in Hindi as a Heritage Language
- 8 Differential Object Marking and Clitic Doubling in Romanian as a Heritage Language
- 9 Comparing the Three Heritage Languages
- 10 Intergenerational Transmission
- Implications
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter asks whether DOM—which is a vulnerable grammatical area in Spanish in the United States—is also vulnerable in Hindi as a heritage language. The results of the study presented in this chapter show that some Hindi heritage speakers also display omission of DOM in all tasks. But unlike what was found for the Spanish-speaking Mexican immigrants in the Spanish study discussed in the previous chapter, there is no indication of ongoing language change in the Hindi spoken in the homeland nor apparent signs of attrition of DOM in the Hindi-speaking adult immigrant group. The sociolinguistic characteristics of the Hindi/Urdu-speaking population in the United States is discussed. The results of the linguistic background questionnaire and the linguistic tasks (oral narrative task, elicited production task, written task, bimodal acceptability judgment task, auditory/written comprehension task) are presented and discussed.
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- Native Speakers, InterruptedDifferential Object Marking and Language Change in Heritage Languages, pp. 183 - 204Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022