A Non-Deficit Perspective on Heritage Language Acquisition: The Case of Portuguese
This paper reviews findings of some studies of heritage Portuguese bilingualism (both European and Brazilian Portuguese), with a focus on morphosyntax, and reflects on some theoretical observations about heritage bilingualism. We conclude that th...
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This paper reviews findings of some studies of heritage Portuguese bilingualism (both European and Brazilian Portuguese), with a focus on morphosyntax, and reflects on some theoretical observations about heritage bilingualism. We conclude that there is mostly successful heritage language acquisition among the heritage speakers considered in each study, although one can still observe variability depending on the linguistic phenomenon, similarly to what happens in other speaker communities. The picture emerging from these studies indicates that there is no overarching trend towards incomplete acquisition, reduced ‘complexity’ or simplification across linguistic domains. This is particularly relevant regarding appeal to incomplete acquisition, given that it is not possible to apply such a concept formally and epistemologically, because one cannot define deterministically what counts as a complete grammatical system (Pires 2011).
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| spelling | doaj-art-70f2e962d35648fda3759880734b18802025-08-20T02:06:40ZengJagiellonian University PressRomanica Cracoviensia1732-87052084-39172024-01-01Tom 24 (2024)334335310.4467/20843917RC.24.026.20981A Non-Deficit Perspective on Heritage Language Acquisition: The Case of PortugueseAcrisio Pires0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3528-8027Cecilia Solís Barroso1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1308-8120 University of Michigan University of Michigan This paper reviews findings of some studies of heritage Portuguese bilingualism (both European and Brazilian Portuguese), with a focus on morphosyntax, and reflects on some theoretical observations about heritage bilingualism. We conclude that there is mostly successful heritage language acquisition among the heritage speakers considered in each study, although one can still observe variability depending on the linguistic phenomenon, similarly to what happens in other speaker communities. The picture emerging from these studies indicates that there is no overarching trend towards incomplete acquisition, reduced ‘complexity’ or simplification across linguistic domains. This is particularly relevant regarding appeal to incomplete acquisition, given that it is not possible to apply such a concept formally and epistemologically, because one cannot define deterministically what counts as a complete grammatical system (Pires 2011). https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/romanica-cracoviensia/artykul/a-non-deficit-perspective-on-heritage-language-acquisition-the-case-of-portuguese |
| spellingShingle | Acrisio Pires Cecilia Solís Barroso A Non-Deficit Perspective on Heritage Language Acquisition: The Case of Portuguese Romanica Cracoviensia |
| title | A Non-Deficit Perspective on Heritage Language Acquisition: The Case of Portuguese |
| title_full | A Non-Deficit Perspective on Heritage Language Acquisition: The Case of Portuguese |
| title_fullStr | A Non-Deficit Perspective on Heritage Language Acquisition: The Case of Portuguese |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Non-Deficit Perspective on Heritage Language Acquisition: The Case of Portuguese |
| title_short | A Non-Deficit Perspective on Heritage Language Acquisition: The Case of Portuguese |
| title_sort | non deficit perspective on heritage language acquisition the case of portuguese |
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