The overwhelming bias for investigations of bilingualism is to focus on the increase of
knowledge and crosslinguistic traffic from the L1 to the L2. Developments which concern …

1. Language learning at school 132 1.1 Monolingual children 132 1.2 Bilingual children 136
2. L1 attrition in minority-language speaking children 139 2.1 Inuktitut-speaking children in …

Linguistic theory and experimental studies of language development rest heavily on the
notion of the adult, perhaps linguistically stable, native speaker. Native speaker competence …

Most linguistic processes—acquisition, change, deterioration—take place in and are
determined by a complex and multifactorial web of language internal and language external …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …

This study investigates the potential incomplete acquisition of binding interpretations in
Korean-English bilinguals by asking whether and how the majority language of these …

Figure 1.1 The (inverted) T/Y-model 7 Figure 1.2 Reinhart's (2006) model 10 Figure 1.3
Jackendoff's (2002) model 18 Figure 1.4 Structure of the cats in the parallel architecture …

First language (L1) attrition in adulthood offers new insight on neuroplasticity and the role of
language experience in shaping neurocognitive responses to language. Attriters are …

We compared naming patterns for common household objects by monolingual speakers of
English and Mandarin and Mandarin-English bilinguals in both their L1 and L2. These …

This article proposes a formal model of the human language faculty that accommodates the
possibility of 'attrition'(modification or loss) of morphosyntactic properties in a first language …