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Epistemological issue with keynote article “The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development” by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:6] 2017
► pp. 637–667

The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development

Monika S. Schmid | University of Essex

Barbara Köpke | Université de Toulouse

Research on second language acquisition and bilingual development strongly suggests that when a previously monolingual speaker becomes multilingual, the different languages do not exist in isolation: they are closely linked, dependent on each other, and there is constant interaction between these different knowledge systems. Theoretical frameworks of bilingual development acknowledge this insofar as they usually draw heavily on evidence of how the native language influences subsequent languages, and how and to what degree this influence can eventually be overcome. The fact that such crosslinguistic transfer is not a one-way street, and that the native language is similarly influenced by later learned languages, on the other hand, is often disregarded.

We review the evidence on how later learned languages can re-shape the L1 in the immediate and the longer term and demonstrate how such phenomena may be used to inform, challenge and validate theoretical approaches of bilingual development.

Keywords: bilingual development, nativist approaches, usage-based perspective, crosslinguistic influence, language attrition

Published online: 10 November 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.17058.sch

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