Language Attrition in Progress / / ed. by Bert Weltens, Kees de Bot, Theo van Els.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Bot, Kees de,; Boyd, Sally,; Cohen, Andrew,; Davies, Alan,; Els, Theo van,; Ginsberg, Ralph B.,; Hagen, Toon,; Hinskens, Frans,; Hout, Roeland van,; Jaspaert, Koen,; Jordens, Peter,; Kroon, Sjaak,; Lambert, Richard D.,; Lintsen, Toke,; Moore, Sarah J.,; Münstermann, Henk,; Olshtain, Elite,; Os, Charles van,; Schumans, Jos,; Weltens, Bert,
• HerausgeberIn: Bot, Kees de,; Els, Theo van,; Weltens, Bert,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. GENERAL PAPERS -- An Overview of European Research on Language Attrition -- Issues in the Analysis of Language Loss: Methodology of the Language Skills Attrition Project -- Points of Reference in First-Language Loss Research -- II. DIALECT LOSS -- The Selection of Linguistic Variables in Empirical Research on Variation and Change in Dialects -- Functional and Structural Aspects of Dialect Loss: A Research Plan and Some First Results -- III. FIRST-LANGUAGE LOSS -- Using the Present to Predict the Future in Language Contact: The Case of Immigrant Minority Languages in Sweden -- Language Loss and Symbolic Gain: The Meaning of Institutional Maintenance -- IV. SECOND- AND FOREIGN-LANGUAGE LOSS -- Foreign-Language Proficiency in the Elderly -- Forgetting Foreign-Language Vocabulary -- Regression in German Case Marking -- Problem Areas in the Study of Language Attrition -- The Attrition of English as a Second Language with Speakers of Hebrew -- The Attrition of French as a Foreign Language: Interim Results -- List of Contributors