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Publication details [#53505]

Hyltenstam, Kenneth, Niclas Abrahamsson and Emanuel Bylund. 2010. The Role of Language Aptitude in First Language Attrition: The Case of Pre-pubescent Attriters. Applied Linguistics 31 (3) : 443–464.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | language contact | language proficiency | language shift | linguistic competence

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study argues that language aptitude holds a compensatory function in language attrition among bilingual (native Spanish speaking) pre-pubers (in Sweden), helping them to preserve a high level of L1 proficiency notwithstanding decreased L1 contact.