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First language attrition [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage Teaching, 2013
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).
Schmid, Monika S, Köpke, Barbara
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First-language phonotactics in second-language listening [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2006
Highly proficient German users of English as a second language, and native speakers of American English, listened to nonsense sequences and responded whenever they detected an embedded English word. The responses of both groups were equivalently facilitated by preceding context that both by English and by German phonotactic constraints forced a ...
Weber, Andrea, Cutler, Anne
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Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We show that loanword adaptation can be understood entirely in terms of phonological and phonetic comprehension and production mechanisms in the first language. We provide explicit accounts of several loanword adaptation phenomena (in Korean) in terms of
Boersma, Paul, Hamann, Silke
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The first signs of language: Phonological development in British sign language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
A total of 1018 signs in one deaf child’s naturalistic interaction with her deaf mother, between the ages 19-24 months were analysed. This study summarises regular modification processes in the phonology of the child sign’s handshape, location, movement ...
Barrett-Jones, S.   +2 more
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Predicting Native Language from Gaze [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A fundamental question in language learning concerns the role of a speaker's first language in second language acquisition. We present a novel methodology for studying this question: analysis of eye-movement patterns in second language reading of free ...
Berzak, Yevgeni   +3 more
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First language attrition

open access: yes, 2023
First language attrition has traditionally been studied in individuals who stopped routinely using their L1 following a move abroad. From migrants in the 1980s and 1990s, the settings in more recent attrition studies have widened to expat communities who mostly continue to use their L1 in daily life (cf. Keijzer 2020).
Wirth, Beatriz Duarte   +2 more
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MAINTAINING FIRST LANGUAGE: BILINGUALS’ VOICES [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Indonesia is known as a multicultural country which has thousand different languages Most of its citizens are believed to be able to communicate by using two or morelanguages. This qualitative research, by employing case study approach, was done withthe
Abrar, Mukhlash
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Language control and parallel recovery of language in individuals with aphasia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Background: The causal basis of the different patterns of language recovery following stroke in bilingual speakers is not well understood. Our approach distinguishes the representation of language from the mechanisms involved in its control.
Abutalebi J.   +26 more
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First language in the classroom: the forbidden fruit? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Tesis (Profesor de Inglés para la Enseñanza Básica y Media y al grado académico de Licenciado en Educación)Over the past years, the use of students’ first language (L1) in the classroom has been a highly discussed topic in the EFL classroom as well as in
Angulo Herrera, Isidora   +5 more
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