Papers on Bilingual and Heritage Speakers
These papers are the result of productive and enjoyable collaborations with students and colleagues who are themselves multilingual and heritage speakers. Please look them up and learn about their research and community contributions.




Goldin, M., Syrett, K., & Sánchez, L. 2021. Perspective-taking with deictic motion verbs in Spanish heritage child speakers: Context-dependent cross-linguistic influence at the lexical level. Frontiers in Psychology (Language Sciences). doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.611228
Syrett, K., Austin, J., & Sánchez, L. 2021. Establishing upper bounds in English monolingual and Heritage Spanish-English bilingual language development. Language Acquisition, 1, 39-64.
Syrett, K., Austin, J., Sanchez, L., Germak, C., Lingwall, A., Perez-Cortes, S., Arias-Amaya, A., & Baker, H. 2017. The influence of conversational context and the developing lexicon on the calculation of scalar implicatures: Insights from Spanish-English bilingual children. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 7, 230-264.
Syrett, K., Lingwall, A., Perez-Cortes, S., Austin, J., Sanchez, L., Baker, H., Germak, C., & Arias-Amaya, A. 2017. Differences between Spanish monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual children in their calculation of entailment-based scalar implicatures. Glossa Special Issue: Acquisition of Quantification, 2, 1-19.