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 …

Code-switching—the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a
bilingual speaker—is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that …

Modeling the competence grammar of heritage speakers who exhibit low proficiency in their
L1 represents a significant challenge for generative and experimental approaches to …

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

The study of first language attrition is currently entering its third decade. However, after
twenty years of diligent investigation resulting in numerous theoretical and empirical papers …

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

Child and adult Spanish heritage speakers have been shown to display erosion and loss of
the tense-aspect and mood system in oral production. In particular, while they retain the …

This study investigates whether advanced second language (L2) learners of a nonnull
subject language (Dutch) are influenced by their null subject first language (L1)(Turkish) 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 …

The aim of the article is to examine how first language attrition research on maturational
constraints interprets and links its findings to current views on maturation in the field of …