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 …

In recent years, despite the fact that many researchers have devoted much of their attention
to second language attrition, not much focus has been given to first language attrition (FLA) …

La atrición lingüística ha sido un fenómeno principalmente estudiado desde comienzos del
nuevo siglo. Sin embargo, no han sido muchos los estudios desarrollados sobre el español …

Language attrition (LA1) is a process that immigrants experience to various degrees as a
result of language contact, diminished L1 input, and the need to become sufficiently …

As the number of Iranian immigrants has increased in Canada in recent decades, more
research is necessary on this population. Given that immigrant-language transmission is …

Immigration to a new country begins with a process of adapting into a new society which is
also known as acculturation (Berry, 1997). The study focuses on one type of integration …

La atrición lingüística ha sido un fenómeno principalmente estudiado desde comienzos del
nuevo siglo. Sin embargo, no han sido muchos los estudios desarrollados sobre el español …

The present study is an attempt to connect the psycholinguistic study of lexical attrition and
the different tools used in lexical statistics to measure lexical diversity, with a focus on Zipf's …