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 …

The present work presents a critical assessment of claims in recent literature that moribund
language varieties exhibit accelerated language decay, and that attrition in individual …

The continued integration of multilingual populations and their linguistic abilities into
theoretical discussions of the structural design of human language has had a profound effect …

We report on work with German-English bilinguals, heritage speakers of German, and their
licensing of parasitic gaps (a type of multiple gap construction) in English-to-German …

This paper examines preposition stranding (p-stranding) in Wisconsin Heritage German
(WHG). English-to-German translation tasks conducted with eight English-WHG bilingual …

This article presents on interviews with 10 bilingual speakers of American English and
Wisconsin Heritage German (whg), with respect to their licensing of high (np 1) versus low …

From a contemporary perspective, Wisconsin hardly counts as part of any possible “German-
speaking world,” but a century ago, there were very real and robust German-speaking …

OT is a general competition-based theory of generative grammar based on a particular
theory of constraint interaction and a theory of the economy of constraint violation. It departs …

In the last five years, research on heritage language has moved from “the margin to become
a central focus” thanks to the so-called social turn (Montrul 2016). My dissertation addresses …

We report on work with German-English bilinguals, heritage speakers of German, and their
licensing of parasitic gaps (a type of multiple gap construction) in English-to-German …