First Language Attrition

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By: Herbert W. Seliger (Editor), Robert M. Vago (Editor)

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Published: 26th August 1991

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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.

"Quite generally, the methodological richness of the studies collected in this volume should be of value to all students of attrition who come after...The scope of the volume Seliger & Vago have put together, and the quality of many of the individual studies, make theirs a welcome addition to the literature." Language

List of figures	p. xi
List of tables	p. xiii
List of contributors	p. xv
Acknowledgment	p. xvii
Survey studies
The study of first language attrition: an overview	p. 3
First language attrition and the parameter setting model	p. 17
Recapitulation, regression, and language loss	p. 31
First language loss in bilingual and polyglot aphasics	p. 53
A crosslinguistic study of language contact and language attrition	p. 67
Group studies
L1 loss in an L2 environment: Dutch immigrants in France	p. 87
The sociolinguistic and patholinguistic attrition of Breton phonology, morphology, and morphonology	p. 99
Language attrition in Boumaa Fijian and Dyirbal	p. 113
Pennsylvania German: convergence and change as strategies of discourse	p. 125
Lexical retrieval difficulties in adult language attrition	p. 139
Spanish language attrition in a contact situation with English	p. 151
Case studies
Morphological disintegration and reconstruction in first language attrition	p. 175
Assessing first language vulnerability to attrition	p. 189
Compensatory strategies of child first language attrition	p. 207
Language attrition, reduced redundancy, and creativity	p. 227
Paradigmatic regularity in first language attrition	p. 241
Index	p. 253
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ISBN: 9780521348836
ISBN-10: 0521348838
Audience: Professional
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 280
Published: 26th August 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7
Weight (kg): 0.38