The Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition

by Monika S. Schmid (Editor), Barbara Köpke (Editor)

Overview

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. The effects of language attrition can be felt in all aspects of language knowledge, processing, and production, and can offer unique insights into the mind of bilingual language users. In this book, international experts in the field explore a comprehensive range of topics in language attrition, examining its theoretical implications, psycho- and neurolinguistic approaches, linguistic and extralinguistic factors, L2 attrition, and heritage languages. The chapters summarize current research and draw on insights from related fields such as child language development, language contact, language change, pathological developments, and second language acquisition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192512192
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	07/17/2019
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	768
File size:	4 MB

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).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Kopke
Part I: Theoretical Implications of Language Attrition
2. Language attrition and the Competition Model, Brian MacWhinney
3. Language attrition and the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis, Michael T. Putnam, Silvia Perez-Cortes, and Liliana Sanchez
4. The Interface Hypothesis as a framework for studying L1 attrition, Gloria Chamorro and Antonella Sorace
5. Implications of the Bottleneck Hypothesis for language attrition, Roumyana Slabakova
6. A Complex Dynamic Systems perspective on personal background variables in L1 attrition, Conny Opitz
Part II: Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Approaches to Language Attrition
7. Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic approaches to language attrition, Barbara Kopke & Merel Keijzer
8. Language attrition as a special case of processing change: A wider cognitive perspective, Michael Sharwood Smith
9. Memory retrieval and language attrition: Language loss or manifestations of a dynamic system?, Jared A. Linck and Judith F. Kroll
10. How bilingualism affects syntactic processing in the native language: Evidence from eye movements, Paola E. Dussias, Jorge Valdes Kroff, Michael Johns, and Alvaro Villegas
11. First language attrition and Developmental Language Disorder, 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, Eve Higby, Aviva Lerman, Marta Korytkowska, Taryn Malcolm, and Loraine K. Obler
13. Linguistic regression in bilingual patients with Alzheimer's disease, Melissa Barkat-Defradas, Frederique Gayraud, Barbara Kopke, and Laurent Lefebvre
14. Electrophysiological approaches to L1 attrition, Karsten Steinhauer and Kristina Kasparian
15. Neuroimaging perspectives on L1 attrition and language change, Eleonora Rossi, Yanina Prystauka, and Michele T. Diaz
Part III: Linguistic factors in language attrition
16. Introduction to linguistic factors in language attrition, Monika S. Schmid and Esther de Leeuw
17. Phonetic drift, Charles B. Chang
18. Phonetic attrition, Esther de Leeuw
19. Phonological attrition, Chiara Celata
20. Morphological attrition, Elena Schmitt
21. Lexical attrition, Scott Jarvis
22. Null and overt pronouns in attrition, Ayşe Gurel
Part IV: Extralinguistic Factors in Language Attrition
23. Introduction to extralinguistic factors in language attrition, Monika S. Schmid and Mirela Cherciov
24. Age effects in language attrition, Emanuel Bylund
25. The impact of frequency of use and length of residence on L1 attrition, Monika S. Schmid
26. L1 attrition, L2 development, and integration, Gulsen Yılmaz
27. Language contact and language attrition, Claudia Maria Riehl
Part V: Second Language Attrition
28. Introduction to L2 attrition, Teodora H. Mehotcheva and Barbara Kopke
29. Exploring the impact of extra-linguistic factors on L2/FL attrition, Teodora H. Mehotcheva and Kleopatra Mytara
30. Syntax and phonology in L2 attrition: Modularity and resilience, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and David Stringer
31. L2 lexical attrition, Jenifer Larson-Hall
32. Attrition studies on Japanese returnees, Hideyuki Taura
33. Event-related potentials as metrics of foreign-language learning and loss, Lee Osterhout, Ilona Pitkanen, and Judith McLaughlin
Part VI: Heritage Languages
34. Inroduction to heritage language development, Silvina Montrul and Maria Polinsky
35. Quantifying language experience in heritage language development, Sharon Unsworth
36. Intra-generational attrition: Contributions to heritage speaker competence, Fatih Bayram, Diego Pascual y Cabo, and Jason Rothman
37. 2L1 simultaneous bilinguals as heritage speakers, Tanja Kupisch
38. Language loss and language learning in internationally-adopted children: Evidence from behaviour and the brain, Lara J. Pierce, Fred Genesee, and Denise Klein
39. Childhood language memory in adult heritage language (re)learners, Janet S. Oh, Terry Kit-fong Au, Sun-Ah Jun, and Richard M. Lee
40. Language development in bilingual returnees, Cristina Flores
Concluding remarks, Kees de Bot
Annotated bibliography, Monika S. Schmidt
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"...this book will stand as a key reference for a generation at least." — John McWhorter, Columbia University, Heritage Language Journal 18

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