W. Seliger / M. Vago (eds.)

First Language Attrition

Herausgeber: Seliger, Herbert W.; Vago, Robert M.

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Produktbeschreibung

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 generalizations about language attrition. Part II is comprised of 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, comprising 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521348836
• ISBN-10: 0521348838
• Artikelnr.: 21353840

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Survey Studies: 1. The study of first language attrition: an
overview Herbert W. Seliger and Robert M. Vago; 2. First language attrition
and the parameter-setting model Michael Sharwood Smith and Paul Van Buren;
3. Recapitulation, regression and language loss Kees de Bot and Bert
Weltens; 4. First language loss in bilingual and polyglot aphasics Loraine
K. Obler and Nancy Mahecha; 5. A cross-linguistic study of language contact
and language attrition Julianne Maher; Part II. Group Studies: 6. L1 loss
in an L2-environment: Dutch immigrants in France Kees de Bot, Paul Gommans
and Carola Rossing; 7. The sociolinguistic and patholinguistic attrition of
Breton phonology, morphology, and morphonology Wolfgang U. Dressler; 8.
Language attrition in Boumaa Fijian and Dyirbal Annette Schmit; 9.
Pennsylvania German: convergence and change as strategies of discourse
Marion Lois Huffines; 10. Lexical retrieval difficulties in adult language
attrition Elite Olshtain and Margaret Barzilay; 11. Spanish language
attrition in a contact situation with English Carmen Silva-Corvalan; Part
III. Case Studies: 12. Morphological disintegration and reconstruction in
first language attrition Dorit Kaufman and Mark Aronoff; 13. Assessing
first language vulnerability to attrition Evelyn Altenberg; 14.
Compensatory strategies of child first language attrition Donna Turian and
Evelyn Altenberg; 15. Language attrition, reduced redundancy and creativity
Herbert W. Seliger; 16. Paradigmatic regularity in first language attrition
Robert M. Vago.