Environmental factors influence heritage speakers' language use
Abstract
I carried out a pilot study with 28 heritage speakers of Albanian and Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian in Switzerland. Analysis has provided evidence that environmental factors - such as residential segregation, urbanization, local and transnational networks and others - influence heritage speakers' language use, with impact on language maintenance and shift. This study was presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting 2026 at New Orleans Marriott.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies
Multilingual Education and Policy
Linguistic Variation and Morphology
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 11 January 2026