Sergio Verdú
The Cauchy Distribution in Information Theory
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)
paper bring attention linguistic community recent research heritage languages shifting linguistic attention model monolingual speaker model multilingual speaker important advancement understanding language faculty native speaker competence typically result normal first language acquisition environment native language dominant various contexts learners extensive continuous exposure opportunities use heritage speakers present different case bilingual speakers ethnic immigrant minority language whose first language often reach nativelike attainment adulthood propose set connections heritage language studies theory construction underscoring potential population offers linguistic research examine several important grammatical phenomena standpoint representation heritage languages including case aspect interface phenomena discuss questions raised data heritage speakers could fruitfully shed light current debates language works acquired different conditions end consideration potential competing factors shape heritage language system adulthood