Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language by Francesco Bryan ... - 9783110759518

Studies in Italian as a Heritage LanguageAuthor(s): Francesco Bryan Romano\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: De Gruyter, Germany\nImprint: De Gruyter Mouton\nISBN-13: 9783110759518, 978-3110759518\nSynopsis\nThe book is dedicated to the linguistic, psycholinguistic, and ethnolinguistic dimensions of Italian as a heritage language spoken by minorities in the Americas and Europe. The contributions deepen our understanding of heritage language bilingualism in general, especially by comparing the acquisition of inflectional morphology in Italian with the processes at play in other heritage languages.