Paying attention to verb-noun collocations among returnees and heritage speakers
How vulnerable are L2 English collocations to attrition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15087342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hadil Alraddadi (0009-0009-7473-2689, Taibah University, corresponding author), Fraibet Aveledo (0000-0002-7736-1600, University of Reading), Roland Hangelbroek (0000-0002-0442-5378, Novo Nordisk (Denmark)), Jeanine Treffers‐daller (0000-0002-6575-6736, University of Reading) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 563-576 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bilingualism Language and Cognition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-7289 • E-ISSN: 1469-1841 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1366728924000610 |
| OpenAlex | W4404824976 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 53 |
It is well established that verb-noun collocations are difficult for L2 learners, but little is known about the extent to which such collocations are vulnerable to attrition under conditions of reduced input. The study is novel in that we focus on L2 attrition rather than L1 attrition, and because we focus on Saudi Arabian returnees, who have so far hardly been studied. These are compared to child, adolescent and adult heritage speakers in the US. Receptive knowledge of English collocations was measured with a novel online acceptability judgement task and an online gap-filling task. We found that child returnees experienced more difficulties than the adolescent returnees, because the child returnees had not acquired collocations to the same extent as the adolescent returnees, and they experienced more crosslinguistic influence from Arabic. The current study also provides some counter evidence against the claim that every bilingual is an attriter
Attrition · Heritage language · Linguistics · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Noun · Verb · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Text Readability and Simplification
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |