The overwhelming bias for investigations of bilingualism is to focus on the increase of
knowledge and crosslinguistic traffic from the L1 to the L2. Developments which concern …

This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers,
written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of …

With a growing interest in heritage languages from researchers of bilingualism and linguistic
theory, the field of heritage-language studies has begun to build on its empirical …

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 …

This article deals with the interface between syntax and discoursepragmatics/semantics in
bilingual speakers. Linguistic phenomena at the interface have been shown to be especially …

1. Language learning at school 132 1.1 Monolingual children 132 1.2 Bilingual children 136
2. L1 attrition in minority-language speaking children 139 2.1 Inuktitut-speaking children in …

Most linguistic processes—acquisition, change, deterioration—take place in and are
determined by a complex and multifactorial web of language internal and language external …

This paper presents an investigation of lexical first language (L1) attrition, asking how a
decrease in lexical accessibility manifests itself in long-term residents in a second language …

We explore the relationship between first language attrition and language dominance,
defined here as the relative availability of each of a bilingual's languages with respect to …

Heritage grammars, linguistic varieties emerging in the context of intergenerational
language loss, are known to diverge from the corresponding full-fledged baseline varieties …