Abstract The article addresses the issue of an assumed correlation between heritage language speakers’ linguistic system and their fluency. Previous research has shown that heritage language speakers who have grammatical patterns that are divergent from the language spoken in the homeland also have lexical retrieval problems and speak with a slower speech rate. We approach the issue by examining two linguistic features and 11 different fluency features (‘structural’ and ‘performance features’) of 10 speakers of Argentine Heritage Danish. A factor analysis shows that the 11 performance features can be reduced to 2 factors that characterize the speakers ‘lexical retrieval’ and ‘fluency’. A correlation analysis with the two structural features, weakening of a phonological contrast between /oː/ and /ɔː/ and simplification of the gender system, shows that there are no correlations at all between these two measures of the speakers’ language production, in contrast to what previous research has found.

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阿根廷传统丹麦语使用者的语言变化与语言表现的相关性

摘要 本文讨论了传统语言使用者的语言系统与其流利程度之间的假设相关性问题。先前的研究表明，那些语法模式与本国语言不同​​的传统语言使用者也存在词汇检索问题，并且语速较慢。我们通过检查阿根廷传统丹麦语的 10 位说话者的两种语言特征和 11 种不同的流利特征（“结构”和“表现特征”）来解决这个问题。因子分析表明，11 个表现特征可以简化为表征说话者“词汇检索”和“流畅性”的 2 个因子。与两个结构特征的相关性分析，弱化 /oː/ 和 /ɔː/ 之间的语音对比和简化性别系统，