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