First Language Attrition
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First Language Attrition

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First Language Attrition

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First Language Attrition examines linguistic aspects of the attrition or loss of first language abilities in bilinguals through a collection of studies in various language groups. The phenomena of attrition are examined at both the individual bilingual and societal levels. This volume is divided into three sections: Part I surveys different aspects of existing empirical evidence to arrive at theoretical generalisations about language attrition. Part II comprises group studies examining attrition in societal bilingualism or in groups of bilingual individuals. Part III contains individual case studies of bilingual children and adults. The research reported in this text investigates first language attrition in a variety of linguistic areas such as syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology and lexicon with the following first languages: Spanish, German, Hebrew, Dyirbal, English, Breton, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, French and Pennsylvania German. Although there is growing interest in bilingualism, this is the first work to examine the effects of the acquisition of a second language on linguistic abilities in the first language.

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Yes, you can access First Language Attrition by Herbert W. Seliger,Robert M. Vago in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of tables
  9. List of contributors
  10. Acknowledgment
  11. Part I Survey studies
  12. 1 The study of first language attrition: an overview
  13. 2 First language attrition and the parameter setting model
  14. 3 Recapitulation, regression, and language loss
  15. 4 First language loss in bilingual and polyglot aphasics
  16. 5 A crosslinguistic study of language contact and language attrition
  17. Part II Group studies
  18. 6 LI loss in an L2 environment: Dutch immigrants in France
  19. 7 The sociolinguistic and patholinguistic attrition of Breton phonology, morphology, and morphonology
  20. 8 Language attrition in Boumaa Fijian and Dyirbal
  21. 9 Pennsylvania German: convergence and change as strategies of discourse
  22. 10 Lexical retrieval difficulties in adult language attrition
  23. 11 Spanish language attrition in a contact situation with English
  24. Part III Case studies
  25. 12 Morphological disintegration and reconstruction in first language attrition
  26. 13 Assessing first language vulnerability to attrition
  27. 14 Compensatory strategies of child first language attrition
  28. 15 Language attrition, reduced redundancy, and creativity
  29. 16 Paradigmatic regularity in first language attrition
  30. Index