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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
Keynote epistemological paper

The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development

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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, language attrition, crosslinguistic influence, usage-based perspective, nativist approaches
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 1.Background
  • 2.The scope of attrition effects
  • 3.Online effects of linguistic co-activation in the L1
  • 4.The mechanisms underlying language attrition
    • 4.1Entrenchment and competition: the Usage-Based perspective
    • 4.2Interfaces and feature-reassembly: Nativist approaches
    • 4.3Summary
  • 5.Factors driving the attritional process
    • 5.1Crosslinguistic similarity
    • 5.2Exposure and co-activation
    • 5.3The role of AoA
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 10 November 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.17058.sch
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