Esther de Leeuw

List of John Benjamins publications for which Esther de Leeuw plays a role.

Articles

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Leeuw, Esther de 2020 The Frequency Code and gendered attrition and acquisition in the German-English heritage language community in Vancouver, Canada Lost in Transmission: The role of attrition and input in heritage language development, Brehmer, Bernhard and Jeanine Treffers-Daller (eds.), pp. 229–254 | Chapter
The paper investigates pitch level and span in a group of German L1-English L2 late bilinguals in comparison to two monolingual control groups. The late bilinguals had moved to Vancouver, Canada in adulthood, and had been living in Vancouver for an average of 40 years. The results indicate that the… read more
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Leeuw, Esther de 2017 How phonetics and phonology inform L1 attrition (narrowly defined) research Epistemological issue with keynote article “The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development” by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke, pp. 725–729 | Commentary