Language Attrition and Lived Experiences of Attrition among Greek Speakers in London

First language attrition.

Speakers who live in an L2 environment for an extended period of time often experience change in the way in which they use their L1, a process referred to as L1 attrition. This article provides an overview of language attrition phenomena at various linguistic levels. However, attrition cannot be trivially or linearly related to factors such as the frequency of use of the L1. It is argued here t...

Lexical first language attrition Title : Lexical access and lexical diversity in first language attrition *

This paper presents an investigation of lexical first language (L1) attrition, assessing in what way a decrease in lexical accessibility manifests itself for long-term residents in a second language (L2) environment. We question the measures typically used in attrition studies (formal tasks and type-token ratios) and argue for an in-depth analysis of free spoken data, including factors such as ...

Critical periods in language acquisition and language attrition

The issue of the " critical period hypothesis for language acquisition " is the focus of a vast literature at the outset that the expression " Critical Period Hypothesis " (CPH) is used with two different meanings. The first meaning of the CPH corresponds to an empirical hypothesis according to which humans are more efficient at language learning in the first years of life. In other words, the ...

Dutch in Indonesia: Language Attrition or Language Contact?

Separating universal principles from attrition and transfer in heritage language