Series | LiVVaL. Linguaggio e Variazione | Variation in Language
Edited book | Heritage Languages and Variation
Chapter | Grammatical Gender in Child and Adult Heritage Russian in Contact with Hebrew
Grammatical Gender in Child and Adult Heritage Russian in Contact with Hebrew
What Do We Learn About the Trajectories of Heritage Language Development?
Abstract
The current study investigated trajectories of HL-Russian grammatical development in the domain of morpho-syntax by considering (a) monolingual-like development, (b) divergent attainment (previously referred to as incomplete acquisition), (c) attrition, and (d) a birth of a new language variety in a contact situation. Adult and child HL-Russian speakers were compared to monolingual child and adult Russian speaking baseline controls. The adjective–noun elicitation task, which taps gender assignment/agreement in real words in Russian, was used. Overall, the results indicated that Russian-speaking children showed adult-like performance.
Submitted: Aug. 1, 2023 | Accepted: Nov. 16, 2023 | Published July 18, 2024 | Language: en
Keywords Russian • Heritage Language • Grammatical gender • Attrition • Divergent attainment
Copyright © 2024 Natalia Meir. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-800-2/001
