Heritage speakers are people raised in a home where one language is spoken who
subsequently switch to another dominant language. The version of the home language that …

Code-switching—the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a
bilingual speaker—is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that …

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 …

We discuss the phenomenon of closest conjunct agreement with a special focus on head-
final languages; we present data from two such languages, Hindi and Tsez, which allow …

According to the 2007 Census, the US is home to 851,170 immigrants from Russia
(Community Survey, US Census). Whatever their ethnic identity (“nationality”) was according …

Investigators of first language attrition, early bilingualism and child second language
learning have found common ground on a number of important points. The present review of …

This study investigates first language attrition in perception of a foreign accent in one's
native language. Although studies of first language attrition abound, there are very few …

This paper documents and analyzes the language spoken by Russian immigrants in the
USA in the early twenty-first century. The main distinction is between first-and second …

This dissertation focuses on the structural description of code-switching (CS) patterns in
Erzya–Russian bilingual discourse. I define CS as the use of elements from two languages …

L1 attrition–which in the context of this study is defined as the decline of any native language
skill (or portion thereof) in a healthy bilingual speaker (Ecke, 2004)–has been studied …