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Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.18710/UXFBBC |
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Publication Date
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2026-09-18 |
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Title
| Replication Data for: What matters most? Predicting Language Outcomes in Heritage German Children and Societal Norwegian: The Role of Individual Differences |
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Author
| Hufer, Anne-Sophiehttps://ror.org/02qte9q33ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0009-0009-3892-5811 |
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Point of Contact
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Anne-Sophie Hufer (University of Stavanger) |
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Description
| This study investigates individual difference factors in language outcomes of child heritage speakers of German living in Norway. To address the ongoing debate about the sources of heterogeneity in heritage language (HL) acquisition, we collected data from 66 children using the German and Norwegian versions of the LITMUS Sentence Repetition Task, supplemented by language background information from the Q-BEx questionnaire. The results suggest that accuracy in both HL German and societal language (SL) Norwegian decreases with higher linguistic complexity yet increases with chronological age. HL German outcomes were further predicted by HL richness, HL use in the local community and language dominance. These results contribute to our understanding of the development of the HL and the SL in tandem. (2026-08-11) |
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Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
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Keyword
| heritage language acquisition
german
norwegian
individual difference factors
linguistic complexity |
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Language
| English |
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Producer
| University of Stavanger (UiS) https://www.uis.no/en |
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Production Location
| Stavanger region, Norway; Oslo, Norway |
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Contributor
| Project Leader: Anne-Sophie Hufer
Project Member: Nadine Kolb
Project Member: David Natvig
Project Member: Cristina Flores
Project Member: Brechje van Osch |
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Distributor
| The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) (TROLLing) https://trolling.uit.no/ |
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Depositor
| Hufer, Anne-Sophie |
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Deposit Date
| 2026-08-11 |
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Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2024-06-20; End Date: 2025-02-14 |
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Data Type
| questionnaire data; information sheet and consent form; sentence repetition task data |
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Software
| R Studio |
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Related Material
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- Norwegian LITMUS SRT:
- Bome, C., & Kongtorp Vangen, I. (2017). The development and pilot of a Norwegian adaption to the Language Impairment Testing in a Multilingual Setting (LITMUS) sentence repetition tasks [Unpublished master’s thesis]. University of Bergen.
- German LITMUS SRT:
- Hamann, C., Chilla, S., Ruigendijk, E., & Abed Ibrahim, L. (2013). A German sentence repetition task: Testing bilingual Russian/German children. Poster presented at the COST Meeting in Krakow, Oldenburg.
- Hamann, C., Chilla, S., Gagarina, N., & Abed Ibrahim, L. (2017). Syntactic complexity and bilingualism: How (a)typical bilinguals deal with complex structures. In E. Di Domenico (Ed.), Complexity in Acquisition (pp. 142–178). Cambridge: Scholars Publishing.
- Q-BEx Questionnaire:
- De Cat, C., Gusnanto, A., Kašćelan, D., Prévost, P., Serratrice, L., Tuller, L., & Unsworth, S. (2025). How detailed do measures of bilingual language experience need to be? A cost-benefit analysis using the Q-BEx questionnaire. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925100497
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