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heritage language: a standalone construct

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Bilingualism

a minority home language learned in childhood but often not fully developed because the dominant societal language takes over.

In bilingualism, heritage language refers to a minority home language learned in childhood but often not fully developed because the dominant societal language takes over. This meaning comes from Polinsky (2007) in Language and Linguistics Compass.[1]

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Polinsky, M., & Kagan, O. (2007). Heritage Languages: In the ‘Wild’ and in the Classroom. Language and Linguistics Compass, 1(5), 368-395. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2007.00022.x

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