Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language
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Edited by:
Francesco Bryan Romano
About this book
The book is dedicated to the linguistic, psycholinguistic, and ethnolinguistic dimensions of Italian as a heritage language spoken by minorities in the Americas and Europe. The contributions deepen our understanding of heritage language bilingualism in general, especially by comparing the acquisition of inflectional morphology in Italian with the processes at play in other heritage languages.
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"As the first volume dedicated to the study of Italian as a heritage language, Romano’s collection will be a go-to work for anyone interested in Italian or Sicilian as minority languages. By examining various majority language pairings and contexts, these studies not only establish new knowledge but also serve as a jumping-off point to spark further research into the complex and multifaceted interplay of factors surrounding Italian heritage language acquisition. "
Melissa A. Bowles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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List of figures
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List of tables
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 Heritage language development: Dominant language transfer and the sociopolitical context
5 - Part I: Experimental studies
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Chapter 2 Ultimate attainment in long-immersed heritage Italian immigrants: Syntactic and semantic knowledge of direct object clitics and partitive ne
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Chapter 3 Grammatical competence in adult heritage speakers of Italian and adult immigrants: A comparative study
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Chapter 4 Ultimate attainment of gender in heritage and L2 Italian
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Chapter 5 Auxiliary selection in heritage speakers of Italian
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Chapter 6 The acquisition of syntactic structures in heritage Italian: Assessing the role of language exposure at critical periods
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Chapter 7 The expression of (deontic and epistemic) modality in Italian as heritage language in Germany
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Chapter 8 Italian as heritage language in third generations on social networks: Morphosyntactic code-switching features
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Chapter 9 Discourse markers in heritage Italian spoken in Flanders
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Chapter 10 Auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance heritage languages: Argentina and the UK
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Conclusion and future directions
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Index
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