Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals

This article reports on two experiments that examine the computation of contrastive focus in Russian on the part of adult English-dominant heritage speakers and second language learners of Russian, in comparison with baseline monolinguals. The first experiment uses an acceptability judgment task to...

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Published in:	Second language research Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 709 - 737
Main Authors:	Ionin, Tania, Luchkina, Tatiana, Goldshtein, Maria
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London, England SAGE Publications 01.07.2024 Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:	Acceptability Bilingual people Bilingualism Competence Computation Cues Cultural heritage English language Experiments Focus Heritage language Monolingualism Prosody Russian language Second Language Learning prosodic prominence cross-linguistic influence contextual prominence Russian syntax–discourse interface second language learners heritage speakers contrastive focus
ISSN:	0267-6583, 1477-0326
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