First language attrition without second language acquisition

An exploratory study

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22299705
AutoresBerthold Laufer (0000-0001-7303-7726, University of Haifa), Liubov Baladzhaeva
Año2015
Volumen166
Número2
Páginas229-253
Fecha de publicación2015-12-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0019-0829 • E-ISSN: 1783-1490
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/itl.166.2.02lau
OpenAlexW2289849470
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas37

We investigate whether Russian immigrants in Israel with little or no knowledge of Hebrew (L2) experience attrition of Russian (L1). We compared immigrants with no knowledge of Hebrew (−Hebrew), immigrants who knew Hebrew (+Hebrew), and monolingual controls on correctness judgment of collocations and of complex grammatical constructions. On collocations, the −Hebrew immigrants performed similarly to the +Hebrew immigrants. On grammatical constructions, they performed worse. Results of grammatical constructions correlated positively with Hebrew proficiency and usage. We conclude that immigrants with no L2 knowledge can experience just as much, or even more, attrition of L1 as immigrants with L2 knowledge. Moreover, higher L2 proficiency may positively affect L1 maintenance

Affect (linguistics) · Attrition · Hebrew · Immigration · Linguistics · History · Language Development and Disorders · Medicine · Multilingual Education and Policy · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology