Testing Potential Transfer Effects in Heritage and Adult L2 Bilinguals Acquiring a Mini Grammar as an Additional Language: An ERP Approach
Models on L3/Ln acquisition differ with respect to how they envisage degree (holisticvs. selective transfer of the L1, L2 or both) and/or timing (initial stages vs. development) of howthe influence of source languages unfolds. This study uses EEG/ERPs to examine these models,bringing together two types of bilinguals: heritage speakers (HSs) (Italian-German, n = 15) comparedto adult L2 learners (L1