SIMULTANEOUS AND SUCCESSIVE BILINGUAL CHILDREN WITH HERITAGE RUSSIAN: COMMON AND VARYING FEATURES IN VOCABULARY AND LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW
The article presents an analysis of vocabulary and linguistic worldview features in bilingual children who are heritage speakers of Russian (children living outside of Russia with one or both Russian parents). The authors used the MB-CDIs in order to analyse the vocabulary of three Russian-English bilinguals (aged between 1.7 and 2.5 years, two simultaneous and one successive). The outcomes of the research suggest that these children share common features in Russian and English vocabulary (both passive and active) and in their linguistic worldviews caused by the lack of knowledge of Russian realias and by the familiarity with the realias of their countries of residence. At the same time, the research outcomes substantiate significant differences in the vocabulary and in the linguistic worldview between simultaneous and successive bilinguals.