Attrition via acquisition: The importance of development in small steps: A Commentary on ‘A model for L1 grammatical attrition’

Westergaard, Marit

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“…The use of the term by Rothman et al ( 2019) is literal. In turn, for Slabakova (2017) and Westergaard (2020Westergaard ( , 2021) "(full) transfer" is a metaphor; "transfer" itself does not exist per se. Instead, cross-language interaction occurs due to coactivation of all of the languages of the multilingual and is expected at several junctures.…”

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“…The process remains under empirical scrutiny (see various resources at https://languageattrition.org/), with the current conclusion being that it is unlikely to completely "erase" the L1 from the mind of the learner (cf. Bayram et al, 2019;Westergaard 2020). We thus predict something similar for the initial systems: despite the many developments of the communicative strategies and practices, what we have called "the initial system" is expected to persist in the linguistic mind of the learner, yet may subsequently be subject to attrition at various junctures.…”

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Variable V2 in Norwegian heritage language

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Lundquist

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This paper discusses possible attrition of verb second (V2) word order in Norwegian heritage language by investigating a corpus of spontaneous speech produced by 50 2nd–4th generation heritage speakers in North America. The study confirms previous findings that V2 word order is generally stable in heritage situations, but nevertheless finds approximately 10% V2 violations. The cases of non-V2 word order are argued to be due to lack of activation of the heritage language grammar, making it vulnerable to crosslinguistic influence from the speakers’ dominant language. This crosslinguistic influence does not simply replace V2 by non-V2, but is argued to operate more indirectly, affecting (a) the distribution of contexts for V2 word order, and (b) introducing two new distinctions into the heritage language, one (indirectly) based on a similar distinction in the dominant language (a difference between adverbs and negation with respect to verb movement), the other based on frequency of initial elements triggering V2 in non-subject-initial declaratives. Together, these findings also indicate that crosslinguistic influence affects different contexts of V2 differently, providing support for analyses that treat V2 word order as the result of many smaller rules.

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Modelling L1 grammatical attrition through language acquisition: A reply to comments

Hicks

Domínguez

2020

Second Language Research

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We wish to begin by thanking the Second Language Research editors for the opportunity to present our model of L1 grammatical attrition ('Attrition via Acquisition', AvA) as a keynote article. We also warmly thank the colleagues who have prepared commentaries that shed further light on the challenges that lie ahead for our model, and indeed for the field of L1 grammatical attrition. Here we offer responses, observations and clarifications to the main points raised in their commentaries. Within the broad and rapidly developing field of language attrition research, we reiterate at the outset that our own principal interest lies in the specific phenomenon that we refer to as L1 grammatical attrition. This specific focus on attrition within the grammar itself is significant, as it is distinct from other changes to L1 processing, cognition or performance that may be attested for bilinguals. Our keynote article (Hicks and Domínguez 2019) seeks to

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Attrition via acquisition: The importance of development in small steps: A Commentary on ‘A model for L1 grammatical attrition’

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Cripping the “Delay”: Multilingualism-Related Consequences of Re-Labeling Language Deprivation Systems

Cripping the “Delay”: Multilingualism-Related Consequences of Re-Labeling Language Deprivation Systems

Variable V2 in Norwegian heritage language

Modelling L1 grammatical attrition through language acquisition: A reply to comments

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