Abstract
This paper reviews findings about linguistic features of Portuguese as a heritage language (PHL) in contact with English and German. The paper reviews some of the issues that have been uncovered in relation to morphosyntatic and sociopragmatic knowledge among heritage speakers of European and Brazilian Portuguese. The paper also discusses a few possible directions for future research in PHL that might shed light on morphosyntactic issues and on whether certain features illustrate examples of attrition or incomplete acquisition.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank an anonymous reviewer for his/her constructive feedback on an earlier version of this text. As always, all errors that remain are my own.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Perceptual salience and social categorization of contact features in Asturian Spanish
- The effect of short-term study abroad on second language Spanish phonetic development
- Competing motivations and number variation
- Caribbean Spanish = Brazilian Portuguese? Some comparative thoughts on the loss of pro-drop
- Viewpoints
- Portuguese language programs in New England: Maintenance and diversification
- From pedagogy to communities: Issues within and beyond the Spanish heritage language classroom
- Issues in Spanish heritage morphosyntax
- The heritage Spanish phonetic/phonological system: Looking back and moving forward
- Features of Portuguese as a heritage language: Morphosyntax and beyond
- Variation in Spanish heritage speakers’ bilingualism and cognition