Maria Polinsky
REANALYSIS IN ADULT HERITAGE LANGUAGE
Harvard University Press
study presents analyzes comprehension relative clauses child adult speakers russian comparing monolingual controls russian heritage speakers hss englishdominant monolingual bilingual children demonstrate full adultlike mastery relative clauses adult hss however significantly different monolingual adult controls child hs group divergent performance indicates adult heritage grammar product fossilization child language instead suggests forms existing baseline undergo gradual attrition life span hs result consistent observations narrative structure child adult hss polinsky 2008b evidence word order facts suggests relative clause reanalysis adult hss cannot attributed transfer english