My PhD project, titled "Multilingual Heritage Language Acquisition: Gender, Case, and Word Order in Greek-Norwegian Child Heritage Speakers and their L3 English" explores the acquisition of grammatical gender, case and word order in Greek-Norwegian bilingual children and their L3 English. This research is important in understanding how these children acquire these grammatical properties in their heritage language (Greek or Norwegian), societal language (Greek or Norwegian), and third language (English). Understanding this will not only contribute to furthering scientific knowledge about heritage multilingualism but will aslo contribute to supporting a rapidly growing group, i.e., heritage multilinguals, in their language development as well as addressing practical needs in education, multilingual parenting, speech therapy, and cultural identity preservation efforts.
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