Resumen de A prolegomenon to the construct of the native speaker: heritage speaker bilinguals are natives too!

Jason Rothman , Jeanine Treffers-Daller

• This Forum challenges the generally accepted position in the linguistic sciences - conscious or not - that monolingualism and nativeness are essentially synonymous in an exclusive way. We discuss two consequences of our position that naturalistic bilinguals and multilinguals exposed to a language in early childhood are also native speakers: (i) that bi-/multilinguals have multiple native languages; and (ii) nativeness can be applicable to a state of linguistic knowledge that is characterized by significant differences to the monolingual baseline.