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Informationen zum Autor Monika S. Schmid is Professor of English Language and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Klappentext An introduction to language attrition, providing an overview of linguistic and extralinguistic features involved and a description of research methods. Zusammenfassung Provides a detailed and up-to-date introduction to the way in which language attrition can affect language! as well as to the extra- and sociolinguistic features involved. It also familiarizes the reader with experimental approaches to attrition and data analysis techniques and provides hands-on guidelines on how to apply them. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. Linguistic Aspects of Language Attrition: 2. What is attrition?; 3. Cross-linguistic influence and the mental lexicon; 4. Attrition in the mental lexicon; 5. Attrition and the structure of language; Part II. Extralinguistic Aspects of Language Attrition: 6. Personal background factors; 7. The role of L1 input and output; 8. Attitudes and identities; Part III. Conducting Research on Language Attrition ¿ Preliminary Considerations: 9. The test populations: participant characteristics and acquisition; 10. Types of linguistic knowledge; Part IV. Experimental Designs for Attrition Research ¿ The Language Attrition Test Battery: 11. Lexical tasks; 12. Grammaticality judgment tasks; 13. Other grammatical tasks; 14. Free speech; Part V. Coding and Analysing the Data: 15. Transcribing and coding free speech: the CHILDES project; 16. Coding and reporting experimental data; 17. Interpreting your data: inferential statistics; 18. Conclusion.
