Heritage Bilingualism in the UK: the case of mood selection in Spanish varieties of Latin America

说传统语言的人(HS)是第二代移民，他们在家里获得他们的传统语言(HL)，但他们在这个国家的主要语言中占据主导地位。我将通过记录英国传统西班牙语的指示性语气选择和虚拟语气选择来研究HL的习得和发展：(I)检验和挑战旨在解释HL习得的三个引导性假说；(Ii)为HS开发一个语言培训计划，看看显性教学是否可以影响HS的情绪选择。大多数HS文献是在美国发展的，那里的人口中有15%说西班牙语。2021年人口普查显示，在过去十年中，说西班牙语的人在英国增加了一倍，因此调查其在英国的具体特征变得更加紧迫，因为移民轨迹和语言历史与美国上下文有很大不同。比较儿童和成人西班牙语HS(7-18/19-30)将使我能够检验母语习得中的主要假设，为该领域在欧洲背景下的理论发展做出实质性贡献，同时弥合在美国和英国研究之间的差距。将制定一项针对人文科学的培训计划，为伦敦各语言中心共享原创材料作出贡献。最后，它将揭示英国拉丁美洲社区的社会语言特征。因此，它将增加英国不断增长的说话者社区的能见度。

Heritage speakers (HS) are 2nd-generation immigrants whoacquire their heritage language (HL) at home, but theybecome dominant in the majority language of the country. Iwill investigate HL acquisition and development bydocumenting indicative vs subjunctive mood selection ofheritage Spanish in the UK (i)to test and challenge the threeleading hypotheses which aim at explaining HL acquisition;(ii)to develop a language training programme for HS to seeif explicit instruction can influence HS's mood selection.Most of HS literature was developed in the US, where 15%of their population is Spanish speaker. Census 2021 showedthat Spanish speakers doubled in the UK in the last tenyears, so investigating its specific features in the UKbecomes more pressing, as the migration trajectories andlinguistic history differ greatly from the UScontext.Comparing children and adult HS of Spanish (7-18/19-30) will allow me to test the main hypotheses in HLacquisition, providing a substantial contribution to thetheoretical development of the field from the Europeancontext, while bridging the gap between studies in the USand the UK. A training programme for HS will be developed,contributing with original material to be shared in variouslanguage centres in London. Lastly, it will shed light on thesociolinguistic characteristics of the Latin Americancommunity in the U.K. As such, it will increase the visibilityof an ever-rising community of Speakers in the country.