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Heritage Language Variation

Heritage Language Variation is a sociolinguistic phenomenon characterized by the systematic divergence of linguistic features in a language maintained across generations by diasporic or minority communities, distinguished from related concepts by its focus on the structural and functional changes that emerge as the language is transmitted in socioculturally shifted environments.

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2017–2026

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Publications

107

Heritage Languages: In the ‘Wild’ and in the Classroom

Maria Polinsky, Olga Kagan · Language and Linguistics Compass · 2007 · 859 citations · Full text

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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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Terminology matters! Why difference is not incompleteness and how early child bilinguals are heritage speakers

Tanja Kupisch, Jason Rothman · International Journal of Bilingualism · 2016 · 439 citations · Full text

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Understanding heritage languages

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

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REANALYSIS IN ADULT HERITAGE LANGUAGE

Maria Polinsky · Studies in Second Language Acquisition · 2011 · 359 citations · Full text

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Authors

168

  1. MP
    Maria Polinsky

    Harvard University Press, United States

    9 publications · 1.9K citations

    9

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  2. NN
    Naomi Nagy

    University of Toronto, Canada

    9 publications · 345 citations

    9

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  3. SM
    Silvina Montrul

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    5 publications · 288 citations

    5

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  4. CF
    Cristina Flores

    University of Minho, Portugal

    4 publications · 139 citations

    4

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  5. JR
    Jason Rothman

    UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

    4 publications · 1.1K citations

    4

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Institutions

96

  1. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    722 citations

  2. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    8 h-index

    16 publications

    526 citations

  3. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    273 citations

  4. University of Minho

    Braga, Portugal

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    158 citations

  5. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    181 citations

  6. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    323 citations

  7. University of Mannheim

    Mannheim, Germany

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    204 citations

  8. University of Kaiserslautern

    Kaiserslautern, Germany

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    204 citations

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Venues

  1. Heritage Language Journal

    16 publications · 617 citations

    14

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  2. International Journal of Bilingualism

    IJB · 12 publications · 1.5K citations

    11

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  3. Bilingualism Language and Cognition

    BLC · 8 publications · 790 citations

    8

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  4. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

    6 publications · 238 citations

    6

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  5. Frontiers in Psychology

    5 publications · 250 citations

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