Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics outlines and evaluates the major approaches and methods
used in Arabic sociolinguistic research with respect to diglossia, codeswitching, language …

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 …

The aim of the article is to examine how first language attrition research on maturational
constraints interprets and links its findings to current views on maturation in the field of …

Erosion of DIFFERENTIAL OBJECT MARKING (DOM)—the overt morphological marking of
animate direct objects—has been observed in Spanish heritage speakers who are second …

This investigation aimed to provide insights into the controversial debate on the role that age
at onset of bilingualism plays in human language capacity with a focus on what it entails for …

Based on an analysis of the speech of long‐term émigrés of German and Dutch origin, the
present investigation discusses to what extent hesitation patterns in language attrition may …

Previous research on Arabic heritage speakers points to notable variability in the language
proficiencies of Arabic heritage speakers, both as individuals and as groups (Albirini & …

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art
of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established …

The present paper will present an overview of the state of the art in language attrition
research, attempting to provide an integrated picture of the attrition process in the light of …