Silvina Montrul

TL;DR: This paper examined the structural characteristics of "incomplete" grammatical states and highlighted how age of acquisition is related to the type of linguistic knowledge and behavior that emerges in L1 and L2 acquisition under different environmental circumstances.

TL;DR: This article investigated argument expression in adult simultaneous bilinguals who are heritage speakers of Spanish, because in this language subjects, direct, and indirect objects are regulated by syntactic, pragmatic and semantic factors.

TL;DR: The authors examine several important grammatical phenomena from the standpoint of their representation in heritage languages, including case, aspect, and other interface phenomena, and discuss how the questions raised by data from heritage speakers could fruitfully shed light on cur- rent debates about how language works and how it is acquired under different conditions.

TL;DR: This paper investigated knowledge of gender agreement in Spanish L2 learners and heritage speakers, who differ in age and context/mode of acquisition, and found that heritage speakers should be more accurate on gender agreement than L 2 learners because their Spanish language acquisition started in infancy.

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether age of onset of bilingualism has an effect on ultimate attainment, and found that morpho-phonological spell-out and semantic features of functional categories are affected by incomplete acquisition and language loss, and many of the patterns of divergence found resemble stages of second language acquisition.