An authoritative overview of research into heritage language acquisition, covering key terminological and empirical issues, theoretical approaches, and research

A pioneering study of heritage languages, from a leading scholar in this area of study world-wide.

Heritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual environment. These include immigrant languages, aboriginal or indigenous languages and historic

Heritage speakers are a fascinating group of bilinguals with a unique profile. Living abroad as immigrants of the second generation, they speak the language of

This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Sw