A Polinsky:

About

A Polinsky is the Josephine Scott Crocker Professor of Law and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is affiliated with the Stanford Law School and specializes in law and the legal system, with a focus on legal and regulatory interventions. His work involves analyzing and developing legal frameworks and policies to address complex societal issues, contributing to the academic and practical understanding of law's role in economic and public policy contexts.

Research topics

• History
• Psychology
• Linguistics
• Computer Science
• Pedagogy
• Engineering

Selected publications

• Language history on fast forward: Innovations in heritage languages and diachronic change

  Bilingualism Language and Cognition · 2021-11-08 · 47 citations

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  Abstract There has been a substantial amount of research on heritage language acquisition and diachronic change. Although recent work has increasingly pointed to parallels between those two areas, it remains unclear how systematic these are. In this paper, we provide a bird's eye view, illustrating how patterns of diachronic change are mirrored in heritage language grammars. In doing so, we focus on one of the best-described grammaticalization processes – namely, the formation of articles from d…

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• Headedness and the Lexicon: The Case of Verb-to-Noun Ratios

  Languages · 2020-02-13 · 23 citations

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  This paper takes a well-known observation as its starting point, that is, languages vary with respect to headedness, with the standard head-initial and head-final types well attested. Is there a connection between headedness and the size of a lexical class? Although this question seems quite straightforward, there are formidable methodological and theoretical challenges in addressing it. Building on initial results by several researchers, we refine our methodology and consider the proportion of…

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• Form-Focused Instruction in the Heritage Language Classroom: Toward Research-Informed Heritage Language Pedagogy

  Frontiers in Education · 2020-06-04 · 17 citations

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  Heritage language speakers have been recognized as a special group of language learners, whose knowledge of and experiences with the language, as well as their motivations for (re)learning their home language, differ drastically from that of an average learner of a second language. Current heritage language pedagogical approaches mainly focus on the development of communicative (or functional) abilities of the heritage learners; however, heritage speakers continue to struggle with structural acc…

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• Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English

  Second language Research · 2023-06-17 · 11 citations

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  While it is known that heritage speakers diverge from the homeland baseline, there is still no consensus on the mechanisms triggering this divergence. We investigate the impact of two potential factors shaping adult heritage language (HL) grammars: (1) cross-linguistic influence (CLI), originally proposed for second language acquisition (SLA), and (2) background factors associated with input. To assess the role of CLI and input we compared two groups of adult heritage speakers of Russian ( n = 6…

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• Introduction

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2021-10-31 · 8 citations

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  Heritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual or multilingual environment.1 They include languages in diaspora spoken by immigrants and their children, aboriginal or indigenous languages whose role has been diminished by colonizing languages, and historical minority languages that coexist with other standard languages in diverse territories. All these examples indicate that in any given context a heritage language instantiates one of the languages in a bilingual society; thus,…

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Frequent coauthors

• Keith Plaster

  IIT@Harvard

  720 shared

• Kenneth Mai

  Harvard University Press

  552 shared

• Boyan Zhang

  176 shared

• Boyan Zhang

  174 shared

• Steven Shavell

  Harvard University Press

  124 shared

• Boyan Zhang

  109 shared

• Hisagi Miwako

  87 shared

• Daniel L. Rubinfeld

  University of California, Berkeley

  77 shared

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