The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages

Introduction Rajiv Rao and Maria Polinsky; 1. Front rounded vowels of Heritage Korean in Northern China Yoonjung Kang, Sungwoo Han, Na-Young Ryu, Jessamyn Scherts, and Suyeon Yun; 2. Phonetic Influence from the minority language: the case of American English heritage speakers in Israel Kyle S. Jones; 3. Phonological transfer in Heritage Japanese in Australia: L1 and L2 comparisons, and literacy and community contributions Kaya Oriyama; 4. Phrasal prosody of heritage speakers of Samoan in Aotearoa New Zealand Sasha Calhoun, Corinne Seals, Toaga Christina Alefosio, and Niusila Faamanatu-Eteuati; 5. Stress placement in English loanwords by speakers of Mirpur Pahari in the UK Sehrish Shafi and Sam Hellmuth; 6. Intergenerational transmission of laterals in Punjabi-English heritage bilinguals Sam Kirkham and Maya Zara; 7. Perception and production of phonemic contrasts in Heritage Russian and Polish in Germany Bernhard Brehmer, Tatjana Kurbangulova, Dominika Steinbach, and Vladimir Arifulin; 8. Focus realization in Heritage Spanish: the case of German-Dominant speakers of Peninsular Spanish Ingo Feldhausen and Maria del Mar Vanrell; 9. Language-Specific phonology of heritage perception: the case of Korean intervocalic stops Seung-Eun Chang; 10. An individual-differences perspective on variation in Heritage Mandarin speakers Charles B. Chang and Yao Yao; 11. Childhood language exposure: does early experience with Arabic affect sound perception and production in speakers with early interrupted exposure? Rawan Hanini, Laura Spinu, Yasaman Rafat, and Anwar Alkhudidi; 12. The intonation of declaratives and polar questions in modern versus Heritage Icelandic Nicole Dehe and Meike Rommel; 13. Functional load and vowel merger in Toronto Heritage Cantonese Holman Tse; 14. Have Cantonese tones merged in spontaneous speech? Naomi Nagy, Holman Tse, and James N. Stanford; 15. Phonetics of stop voicing in heritage and Homeland Polish Naomi Nagy, Paulina Lyskawa, Emily Moran, and Mateusz Urban; 16. Perception and production of English and Portuguese voiceless stops by heritage learners Anabela Rato and Vanina Machado; 17. Prosodically - Conditioned variation: Rhotics in Brazilian Veneto Natalia Brambatti Guzzo.