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We invited you to our next Jour fixe on Tuesday, 24 January 2023.

Anamaria Bentea (Research Fellow / Linguistics) reported on "Cross-linguistic influence in multilingual children and adults".

Abstract:
Heritage speakers are individuals who have learned a language at home as children, their heritage language. This language differs from the main language spoken in the community they live in. To date, little is known about how heritage speakers process the heritage language in real-time and whether they can make use of language-specific properties to correctly interpret complex linguistic structures. By focusing on Romanian in contact with German and English, I examine whether heritage speakers of Romanian use morphosyntactic information when comprehending language input in real-time similarly to Romanian monolinguals and to what extent the presence or absence of similar grammatical information in the dominant second language modulates comprehension and production in the heritage language.