The (Il)Logical Problem of Heritage Speaker Bilingualism and Incomplete Acquisition

Diego Pascual Y. Cabo ^[1] ; Jason Rothman ^[1]
1. [1] University of Florida
  
  University of Florida
  
  Estados Unidos
Localización: Applied linguistics, ISSN 0142-6001, Vol. 33, Nº 4, 2012, págs. 450-455
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- This Forum challenges and problematizes the term incomplete acquisition, which has been widely used to describe the state of competence of heritage speaker (HS) bilinguals for well over a decade (see, e.g., Montrul, 2008). It is suggested and defended that HS competence, while often different from monolingual peers, is in fact not incomplete (given any reasonable definition by the word incomplete), but simply distinct for reasons related to the realities of their environment.