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First language attrition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2016

Monika S. Schmid
Monika S. Schmid*
Affiliation:
University of Essex, UK/University of Groningen, NLmschmid@essex.ac.uk
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This statement opens the first collection of papers that specifically consider the deterioration of linguistic knowledge among bilinguals (Lambert & Freed 1982: see timeline), a field which in one of the papers in the volume is referred to as being in an ‘antenatal’ state (Berko-Gleason 1982: 22). Thirty years down the line it is still a fact that far less is known about the loss or attrition of language skills than about their acquisition.

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Language Teaching , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , April 2016 , pp. 186 - 212
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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