First language attrition: What it is, what it isn't, and what it can be

F Gallo, B Bermudez-Margaretto, Y Shtyrov… - Frontiers in human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This review aims at clarifying the concept of first language attrition by tracing its limits,
identifying its phenomenological and contextual constraints, discussing controversies …

First language attrition and dominance: Same same or different?

B Köpke, D Genevska-Hanke - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
We explore the relationship between first language attrition and language dominance,
defined here as the relative availability of each of a bilingual's languages with respect to …

Assessment in Farsi–English Emerging Bilingual Children: A Tutorial

M Namazi, M Salehomoum - Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest …, 2024 - ASHA
Purpose: Emerging bilingual children represent a diverse population with regard to their
language learning histories and individual factors. When assessing a bilingual child, it is …

The relationship between the perception and production of L2 and L3 rhotics in young multilinguals; an exploratory cross-linguistic study

M Wrembel, U Gut, R Kopečková… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
There is a scarcity of research into the relationship between speech perception and
production from a multilingual perspective. The present exploratory study investigates …

First language attrition and second language attainment of Mandarin-speaking immigrants in Hong Kong: Evidence from prosodic focus

Y Yang - Language Acquisition, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the field of bilingual language development, studies of first language (L1) attrition and
second language (L2) attainment have traditionally been two separate streams of research …

Predictors of language proficiency and cultural identification in heritage bilinguals

S Hayakawa, A Chung-Fat-Yim… - Frontiers in communication, 2022 - frontiersin.org
According to the 2020 US Census Bureau, more than 66 million residents over the age of 5
in the United States speak a language other than English at home. Some bilinguals become …

Bilingualism Predicts Affective Theory of Mind in Autistic Adults

KK Cummings, RK Greene, P Cernasov… - Journal of Speech …, 2024 - ASHA
Purpose: This study examined the impact of bilingualism on affective theory of mind (ToM)
and social prioritization (SP) among autistic adults compared to neurotypical comparison …

Societal multilingualism à la balkanique: The Montenegrin Velja Gorana and beyond

MS Morozova, AY Rusakov - International Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives: The goal of the article is to explore the properties of bilingual and
multilingual situations with balanced, or non-polyglossic, relationships between languages …

The final frontier? Why we have been ignoring second language attrition, and why it is time we stopped

MS Schmid - Language Teaching, 2023 - cambridge.org
Instructed foreign language knowledge–that is, language skills acquired exclusively in the
classroom without the benefit of any significant immersion experience–remains a vastly …

Sources of variation in second and native language speaking proficiency among college-aged second language learners

MR Botezatu, T Guo, JF Kroll, S Peterson… - Studies in Second …, 2022 - cambridge.org
We evaluated external and internal sources of variation in second language (L2) and native
language (L1) proficiency among college students. One hundred and twelve native-English …