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 …

Many simultaneous bilinguals exhibit loss or incomplete acquisition of their heritage
language under conditions of exposure and use of the majority language (Silva-Corvalán …

This review aims at clarifying the concept of first language attrition by tracing its limits,
identifying its phenomenological and contextual constraints, discussing controversies …

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 bilingual competence of adult simultaneous Spanish-English
bilinguals living in the US whose perceived weaker language is Spanish, and who are …

Speakers who routinely use more than one language may not use any of their languages in
ways which are exactly like that of a monolingual speaker. In sequential bilingualism, for …

This paper examines whether the order in which Dutch emigrants in the English-speaking
part of Canada lose their first language is the reverse of that in which Dutch-speaking …

Recent decades have seen an increase in research informing our understanding of the
complex ways in which bilingual development is shaped by biological, cognitive, and …

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 …

This paper discusses the notion of incomplete acquisition in post-puberty second language
learning and in simultaneous or sequential bilingualism in childhood. The following issues …