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Heritage Language Use

Heritage Language Use is a linguistic practice whereby members of a diasporic community engage with the language of their ancestral or familial origin in communicative contexts, distinguished from second-language learning by its connection to personal identity, intergenerational transmission, and sociocultural embeddedness within a dispersed population.

314

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17.2K

Citations

438

Authors

229

Institutions

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2017–2026

124

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Publications

314

Heritage languages and their speakers: Opportunities and challenges for linguistics

Elabbas Benmamoun, Silvina Montrul, Maria Polinsky · Theoretical Linguistics · 2013 · 750 citations · Full text

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Heritage Languages in America: Preserving a National Resource

Carmen Chaves Tesser, Joy Kreeft Peyton, Donald A. Ranard et al. · Hispania · 2003 · 737 citations

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Understanding the nature and outcomes of early bilingualism: Romance languages as heritage languages

Jason Rothman · International Journal of Bilingualism · 2009 · 565 citations

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Heritage Language Students: Profiles and Possibilities

Guadalupe Valdés · 2014 · 461 citations

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Understanding heritage languages

Maria Polinsky, Gregory Scontras · Bilingualism Language and Cognition · 2019 · 410 citations

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Authors

438

  1. MP
    Maria Polinsky

    Harvard University Press, United States

    5 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. SM
    Sara M. Beaudrie

    Arizona State University, United States

    5 publications · 277 citations

    5

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  3. JS
    Jin Sook Lee

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    5 publications · 628 citations

    5

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  4. SM
    Silvina Montrul

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    5 publications · 1.1K citations

    5

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  5. SM
    Sílvia Melo‐Pfeifer

    University of Aveiro, Portugal

    4 publications · 138 citations

    4

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Institutions

229

  1. Victoria University of Wellington

    Wellington, New Zealand

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    405 citations

  2. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    2.1K citations

  3. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    285 citations

  4. Macquarie University

    Sydney, Australia

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    159 citations

  5. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Honolulu, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    571 citations

  6. University of Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    396 citations

  7. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    780 citations

  8. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    380 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

    JMMD · 24 publications · 1.1K citations

    19

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  2. Heritage Language Journal

    26 publications · 855 citations

    16

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  3. 14

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  4. International Journal of Bilingualism

    IJB · 16 publications · 1.2K citations

    13

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  5. Language Culture and Curriculum

    13 publications · 1.3K citations

    13

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