International Journal of Bilingualism articles from September 2004

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from September 2004

Special issue on language attrition.(Introduction)
September 1, 2004... Language attrition is a young and ambitious field of research, and it is now reaching puberty. Accordingly, it wants to be taken seriously. There are various ways to achieve that. One is to adapt theories and methods from older and more...

First language attrition: the methodology revised.
September 1, 2004... Abstract This article presents a criticism of the methodology most frequently used by language attrition studies. In particular, the preoccupation of such research with "errors" in the data from attriters is questioned. It is proposed that...

First language attrition and syntactic subjects: a study of Greek and Italian near-native speakers of English.
September 1, 2004... Abstract In this paper we present some results from an experimental study that we have been conducting into the effects of syntactic attrition on the L1 of Greek and Italian speakers who have achieved near-native proficiency in their L2...

Retention of Irish skills: a longitudinal study of a school-acquired second language.
September 1, 2004... Abstract This paper describes a study of retention of school-acquired Irish among school leavers. The initial group selected represented final year secondary school students from three different instructional categories: ordinary level...

Frenchville French: a case study in phonological attrition.
September 1, 2004... Abstract This paper investigates the phonetic and phonological properties of a contracting variety of French spoken in Frenchville, PA, a linguistic enclave community. Specifically, we analyze a pattern of convergence versus preservation...

Language attrition and theories of forgetting: a cross-disciplinary review.
September 1, 2004... Abstract My purpose in this paper is to examine the psychological nature of forgetting (parts of) a language by individuals involved in language change across the lifespan. The objectives of the article are (1) to summarize psychological...

Parsing a first language like a second: the erosion of L1 parsing strategies in Spanish-English bilinguals.
September 1, 2004... Abstract Past research suggests that parsing processes in a bilingual's first language (L1) can undergo changes as a function of exposure to a second language (L2). Evidence for this claim comes from studies that have examined how...

Finding residual lexical knowledge: the "savings" approach to testing vocabulary.
September 1, 2004... Abstract In this article we report on a series of experiments that have been carried out to apply the savings paradigm to learning words in a foreign language. In the experiments we compared acquisition success rates of newly acquired...

Sometimes I feel as if there's a big hole in my head where English used to be!--attrition of L1 English.(Work in Progress)
September 1, 2004... "Sometimes I feel as if there's a big hole in my head where English used to be" is a remark typical of those native speakers who have been living in a foreign country for some time with reduced or even nonexistent opportunities to communicate...

First language attrition: a cross-linguistic investigation of Jakobson's regression hypothesis.(Work in Progress)
September 1, 2004... In this study, one of the earliest theoretical frameworks put forward for the study of language attrition, namely the regression hypothesis, will be empirically tested in relation to nonpathological first language attrition. The regression...

Language attrition and language acquisition in a second-language setting.(Work in Progress)
September 1, 2004... My Ph.D. project entitled "Language attrition and language acquisition in a second-language setting" explores the cognitive processes involved in maintaining one's first language while simultaneously acquiring another language in a...

Publication received.
September 1, 2004... CANAGARAJAH, A. S. (Ed.).(2005). Reclaiming the local in language policy and practice. Norwood, NJ.: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoicates. DIRIM, I., & AUER, P. (2004). Linguistik impulse & tendenzes. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. EXTRA, G., &...