Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. Topics covered include theoretical implications, psycho- and neurolinguistic approaches, linguistic and extralinguistic factors, L2 attrition, and heritage languages.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke


• Part I: Theoretical Implications of Language Attrition


• 2: Language attrition and the Competition Model by Brian MacWhinney


• 3: Language Attrition and the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis by Michael T. Putnam, Silvia Perez-Cortes, and Liliana Sanchez


• 4: The Interface Hypothesis as a Framework for Studying L1 Attrition by Gloria Chamorro and Antonella Sorace


• 5: Implications of the Bottleneck Hypothesis for Language Attrition by Roumyana Slabakova


• 6: A Complex Dynamic Systems Perspective on Personal Background Variables in L1 Attrition by Conny Opitz


• Part II: Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Approaches to Language Attrition


• 7: Introduction to Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic approaches to language attrition by Barbara Köpke and Merel Keijzer


• 8: Language attrition as a special case of processing change: A wider cognitive perspective by Michael Sharwood Smith


• 9: Memory retrieval and language attrition: Language loss or manifestations of a dynamic system? by Jared A. Linck and Judith F. Kroll


• 10: How bilingualism affects syntactic processing in the native language: Evidence from eye movements by Paola E. Dussias, Jorge Valdés Kroff, Michael Johns, and Álvaro Villegas


• 11: First language attrition and Developmental Language Disorder by Elma Blom, Tessel Boersma, and Jan de Jong


• 12: Aging as a confound in language attrition research: Lexical retrieval, language use, and cognitive and neural changes by Eve Higby, Aviva Lerman, Marta Korytkowska, Taryn Malcolm, and Loraine K. Obler


• 13: Linguistic regression in bilingual patients with Alzheimer's disease by Melissa Barkat-Defradas, Frédérique Gayraud, Barbara Köpke, and Laurent Lefebvre


• 14: Electrophysiological approaches to L1 attrition by Karsten Steinhauer and Kristina Kasparian


• 15: Neuroimaging perspectives on L1 attrition and language change by Eleonora Rossi, Yanina Prystauka, and Michele T. Diaz


• Part III: Linguistic Factors in Language Attrition


• 16: Introduction to linguistic factors in language attrition by Monika S. Schmid and Esther de Leeuw


• 17: Phonetic drift by Charles B. Chang


• 18: Phonetic attrition by Esther de Leeuw


• 19: Phonological attrition by Chiara Celata


• 20: Morphological attrition by Elena Schmitt


• 21: Lexical attrition by Scott Jarvis


• 22: Null and overt pronouns in attrition by Ayse Gürel


• Part IV: Extralinguistic Factors in Language Attrition


• 23: Introduction to extralinguistic factors in language attrition by Monika S. Schmid and Mirela Cherciov


• 24: Age effects in language attrition by Emanuel Bylund


• 25: The impact of frequency of use and length of residence on L1 attrition by Monika S. Schmid


• 26: L1 attrition, L2 development, and integration by Gülsen Yilmaz


• 27: Language contact and language attrition by Claudia Maria Riehl


• Part V: Second Language Attrition


• 28: Introduction to L2 attrition by Teodora H. Mehotcheva and Barbara Köpke


• 29: Exploring the impact of extra-linguistic factors on L2/FL attrition by Teodora H. Mehotcheva and Kleopatra Mytara


• 30: Syntax and phonology in L2 attrition: Modularity and resilience by Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and David Stringer


• 31: L2 lexical attrition by Jenifer Larson-Hall


• 32: Attrition studies on Japanese returnees by Hideyuki Taura


• 33: Event-related potentials as metrics of foreign-language learning and loss by Lee Osterhout, Ilona Pitkänen, and Judith McLaughlin


• Part VI: Heritage Languages


• 34: Introduction to heritage language development by Silvina Montrul and Maria Polinsky


• 35: Quantifying language experience in heritage language development by Sharon Unsworth


• 36: Intra-generational attrition: Contributions to heritage speaker competence by Fatih Bayram, Diego Pascual y Cabo, and Jason Rothman


• 37: 2L1 simultaneous bilinguals as heritage speakers by Tanja Kupisch


• 38: Language loss and language learning in internationally-adopted children: Evidence from behaviour and the brain by Lara J. Pierce, Fred Genesee, and Denise Klein


• 39: Childhood language memory in adult heritage language (re)learners by Janet S. Oh, Terry Kit-fong Au, Sun-Ah Jun, and Richard M. Lee


• 40: Language development in bilingual returnees by Cristina Flores


• Concluding remarks by Kees de Bot


• Annotated bibliography by Monika S. Schmidt


• References


• Index

About the author

Monika S. Schmid is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, having previously held positions at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Her research focuses on various aspects of first language attrition and has been published in journals such as Bilingualism: Language and Cognition and Applied Psycholinguistics. She is the author of several books including Language Attrition (CUP, 2011) and First Language Attrition, Use, and Maintenance: The Case of German Jews in Anglophone Countries (Benjamins, 2002).

Barbara Köpke is Professor of Neuropsycholinguistics at the University of Toulouse 2 and head of the Octogone-Lordat Laboratory. Her research involves neuro- and psycholinguistic aspects of language processing in bilingual subjects with specific attention to 'extreme' situations such as L1 attrition, simultaneous interpreting, and aphasia. Her work has appeared in journals such as Language, Interaction and Acquisition and International Journal of Bilingualism, and she is the editor of a special issue of Journal of Neurolinguistics on first language attrition.

Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke are co-editors, with Merel C. J. Keijzer and Susan Dostert, of Language Attrition: Theoretical Perspectives (Benjamins, 2007).

Summary

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. Topics covered include theoretical implications, psycho- and neurolinguistic approaches, linguistic and extralinguistic factors, L2 attrition, and heritage languages.

Product details

• Authors: Monika S. (Professor of Linguistics Schmid
• Assisted by: Barbara Köpke (Editor), Monika S. Schmid (Editor), Schmid Monika S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780192863232
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286323-2
• No. of pages: 656
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Language acquisition, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism