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Tanja Kupisch

Researcher at University of Konstanz

Publications -  108
Citations -  1737

Tanja Kupisch is an academic researcher from University of Konstanz. The author has contributed to research in topics: German & Heritage language. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 100 publications receiving 1420 citations. Previous affiliations of Tanja Kupisch include University of Hamburg & University of Calgary.

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Terminology matters! : Why difference is not incompleteness and how early child bilinguals are heritage speakers

TL;DR: The authors integrate research on child simultaneous bilingual (2L1) acquisition more directly into the heritage language acquisition literature and offer an epistemological discussion related to incomplete acquisition, highlighting the descriptive and theoretical inaccuracy of the term.
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Determiners in bilingual German–Italian children: What they tell us about the relation between language influence and language dominance

TL;DR: This article investigated the acquisition of determiner omission in four bilingual German-Italy children and concluded that influence is not dependent on language dominance alone, rather, both language dominance and the properties of the target languages must be taken into account when predicting cross-linguistic influence.

Gender in Monolingual and Bilingual First Language Acquisition: Comparing Italian and French

TL;DR: In this article, the acquisition of gender in Italian and French by monolingual and bilingual children was studied, and it was shown that the Italian gender system is easier to acquire than the French gender system, because the formal properties of Italian nouns and other gender marked elements are very transparent.
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Differences in use without deficiencies in competence: passives in the Turkish and German of Turkish heritage speakers in Germany

TL;DR: In this paper, the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (IBEB) has published a survey of bilingual education and bilingualism in Bilingual education and bilingualism.
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Gender assignment and gender agreement in adult bilinguals and second language learners of French

TL;DR: This article investigated whether differences in input conditions (acquisition in a minority vs. a majority language context) and differences in age of onset affect gender assignment and gender agreement in the same way or differently.