Suzanne Pauline Aalberse's research while affiliated with University of Amsterdam and other places

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In this study, we aimed to deepen the understanding of the circumstances under which crosslinguistic influence occurs, by focusing on the acquisition of the Dutch plural by two- and three-year old children who attend bilingual Dutch-English daycare. In doing so, we explored the roles of variability, overlap and language dominance as these are all f...
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This chapter provides an overview of possible outcomes of language contact as a starting point for discussion on contact-induced linguistic variation in the heritage classroom. The rationale for this discussion is that variation awareness will enable students to reflect on their language use without evaluative labels like correct and incorrect. An...
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This chapter provides an overview of possible outcomes of language contact as a starting point for discussion on contact-induced linguistic variation in the heritage classroom. The rationale for this discussion is that variation awareness will enable students to reflect on their language use without evaluative labels like correct and incorrect. An...

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... Similar results have been found among second generation adult Ambon Malay heritage speakers in the Netherlands. In their study, Aalberse and Moro (2014) examine the grammaticalization process of enclitic punya in Malay, which shares functional properties with the definite article de or het 'the' in Dutch. Their results indicate that while baseline speakers in the homeland preferred phonetically reduced forms such as pung, pu, or ng, heritage speakers in the Netherlands have halted the grammaticalization process in favor of forms such as punya and pung. ...