Suzanne Aalberse
List of John Benjamins publications in which Suzanne Aalberse is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1872-9592
Topics in Address Research
Edited by Horst J. Simon, Bettina Kluge, John Hajek, María Irene Moyna and Víctor Fernández-Mallat
ISSN 2405-9269
Titles
Heritage Languages: A language contact approach
Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken
Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 58] 2019. xix, 302 pp.
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013
Edited by Suzanne Aalberse and Anita Auer
The 44th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 9th, 2013. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year's meeting, 83 papers were presented, of which 25 were submitted to the present… read more
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2012
Edited by Marion Elenbaas and Suzanne Aalberse
The 43rd annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 4th, 2012. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year's meeting, 67 papers were presented, of which 22 were submitted to the present… read more
2025 Chapter 16. Variation and stability in variants of heritage Dutch Dutch and Contact Linguistics: The Dutch language outside the Low Countries, Joby, Christopher and Nicoline van der Sijs (eds.), pp. 502–536 | Chapter
This chapter provides an overview of linguistic variation and stability of heritage Dutch in seven parts of the world. In the context of research on first and second language acquisition strategies in Dutch as well as on other heritage languages, we contextualize and interpret observations taken… read more
2024 Chapter 5. Multilingual acquisition across the lifespan as a sociohistorical trigger for language change Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives, Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.), pp. 104–126 | Chapter
Language contact implies more variation in language use, both in the individual and in the community. This increased variation can accelerate language change, but it can also halt it (Aalberse et al. 2019; Muysken 2013). Which parts of language do change, and which parts do not depends on… read more
2020 Definiteness in Wenzhounese Chinese in the Netherlands and in China: Evidence for generational change in two locations Lost in Transmission: The role of attrition and input in heritage language development, Brehmer, Bernhard and Jeanine Treffers-Daller (eds.), pp. 15–32 | Chapter
By comparing two generations of speakers in China and the Netherlands, we investigated whether Wenzhounese Chinese as spoken by heritage speakers in the Netherlands might be subject to change due to its contact with the Dutch language. To this end, we considered how nouns referring to already… read more
2019 Examining Twitter as a source for address research using Colombian Spanish It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research, Kluge, Bettina and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 75–98 | Chapter
The present study aims to describe pronominal address use in Colombian varieties of Spanish in a specific context of computer-mediated communication, namely Twitter. This description will serve as a discussion of Twitter as an exciting new source of linguistic data for address research. A large… read more
2017 Extended use of demonstrative pronouns in two generations of Mandarin Chinese speakers in the Netherlands: Evidence of convergence? Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk, Blom, Elma, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer (eds.), pp. 25–48 | Chapter
This study investigated the use of demonstratives in encoding already mentioned referents in two generations of Mandarin Chinese speakers in the Netherlands. Data from twelve families was compared to baseline data from eight native controls in China. Previous literature suggests that languages… read more
2017 Chapter 4. Knowledge of mood in internal and external interface contexts in Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World, Bellamy, Kate, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto (eds.), pp. 67–94 | Chapter
This study investigates Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands on their judgments of Spanish mood in a syntactic context and in two interface contexts: the internal interface between syntax and semantics and the external interface between syntax and pragmatics. The strong version of the… read more
2014 Stability in Chinese and Malay heritage languages as a source of divergence Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms, Braunmüller, Kurt, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl (eds.), pp. 141–162 | Article
This article discusses Malay and Chinese heritage languages as spoken in the
Netherlands. Heritage speakers are dominant in another language and use their
heritage language less. Moreover, they have qualitatively and quantitatively
different input from monolinguals. Heritage languages are often… read more
2013 Language contact in heritage languages
in the Netherlands Linguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches, Duarte, Joana and Ingrid Gogolin (eds.), pp. 253–274 | Article
This paper discusses heritage languages (HLs) in the Netherlands. First, different types of motivations for the study of heritage languages in general are presented, since the type of motivation for the interest in heritage speakers has a large impact on the type of phenomenon researched. Formal,… read more