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Attrition and Reactivation of a Childhood Language: The Case of Returnee Heritage Speakers
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Flores, Cristina – Language Learning, 2020
This article discusses the dynamic nature of childhood bilingualism by analyzing oral speech from returnee heritage speakers (HSs) of Portuguese, who grew up in Germany, but moved to Portugal in childhood/adolescence. The first dataset from 14 speakers showed that the length of exposure to German predicted the rate of (in)accurate production of…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Child Language, Bilingualism, Native Language