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 …

Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

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 …

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 …

In recent years, the face of traditional foreign language classes in the USA, Canada,
Australia and Western Europe has been changing dramatically, most noticeably in the …

Montrul's study is an important contribution to a recently emerged research approach to the
study of bilingualism and languages in contact, characterized by its sound theoretical basis …

Experimental research on native speakers points to a distinction between violations of
'soft'constraints, which trigger gradient linguistic judgments, and violations of …

This study compares the linguistic knowledge of adult second language (L2) learners, who
learned the L2 after puberty, with the potentially 'eroded'first language (L1) grammars of …

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

The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with a general overview of the field of attrition.
Having situated this relatively new research domain with respect to related fields and …