HLA_W6

The sentence-picture matching task, act-out task, grammaticality judgment task, and visual world eye-tracking paradigm are examples of tasks that test:

• language comprehension

• language production

The elicited narrative, oral interview, wug test, and picture naming task are examples of tasks that test:

• language comprehension

• language production

Multiple Answer: Which phenomena are characteristic of heritage speakers in their heritage language, in comparison to monolingual speakers of that language?

• smaller vocabularies

• overgeneralization of inflectional morphology

• omission or substitution of case morphology

• easier marking of verb morphology like aspect and agreement

• difficulty producing words cognate with majority language

Moundridge Schweitzer German speakers tend to produce the impersonal passive but have trouble with the agentive passive.

• True

• False

Aspect (e.g. perfective vs. imperfective) is often difficult for heritage speakers because:

• all of below

• none of below

• different patterns across their two languages

• rules for use are often optional or inconsistent

• inflections often have a lot of syncretism

Binding is easy for heritage speakers because the rules for anaphors and reflexives are usually the same across languages.

• True

• False

Heritage speakers tend to find subject relative clauses easier to understand than object relative clauses. This is:

• all of below

• none of below

• the same as child L1 learners

• the same as adult monolinguals

• the same as adult L2 learners