Studies in Turkish as a heritage language / edited by Fatih Bayram.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bayram, Fatih, editor.

Series:

Studies in bilingualism ; Volume 60.

Studies in Bilingualism ; Volume 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkish language--Study and teaching--Europe.

Turkish language.

Turkish language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

Heritage language speakers--Education.

Heritage language speakers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language. Heritage language bilinguals often wind up with grammatical systems that differ in interesting ways from dominant-native speakers growing up where their heritage language is the majority one. Understanding the trajectories and outcomes of heritage language bilingual grammatical competence, performance, language usage patterns, identities and more related topics sit at the core of many research programs across a wide array of theoretical paradigms. The study of heritage language bilingualism has grown exponentially over the past two decades. This expansion in interest has seen, in parallel, extensions in methodologies applied, bridges built between closely related fields such as the study of language contact and linguistic attrition. As is typical in linguistics, not all languages are studied to the same degree. The present volume showcases what Turkish as a heritage language brings to bear for key questions in the study of heritage language bilingualism and beyond. In many ways, Turkish is an ideal language to be studied because of its large diaspora across the world, in particular Europe. The papers in this volume are diverse: from psycholinguistic, to ethnographic, to classroom-based studies featuring Turkish as a heritage language. Together they equal more than their subparts, leading to the conclusion that understudied heritage languages like Turkish provide missing pieces to the puzzle of understanding the variables that give rise to the continuum of outcomes characteristic of heritage language speakers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface. Issues in heritage language research

Chapter 1. Turkish as a heritage language

Part I. Lexicon

Chapter 2. Turkish heritage speakers in Germany

Chapter 3. Correlates of Turkish vocabulary in adolescent Turkish heritage language learners in Germany

Chapter 4. The effects of heritage language experience on lexical and morphosyntactic outcomes

Part II. Morphosyntax

Chapter 5. Convergence in the encoding of motion events in heritage Turkish in Germany

Chapter 6. First language exposure predicts attrition patterns in Turkish heritage speakers’ use of grammatical evidentiality

Chapter 7. Investigating the effects of L1 proficiency and CLI

Chapter 8. Subordination in children acquiring Turkish as a heritage language in Sweden

Part III. Corpus studies

Chapter 9. Perceived global accent in Turkish heritage speakers in Germany

Chapter 10. Turkish in Germany

Chapter 11. Contemporary urban Turkey-Turkish in the German-Turkish classroom

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027260505

9027260508