ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2021
First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn't, and What It Can Be.
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- Interactions between attained proficiency and length of exposure to lexical attrition of English as a second language.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The role of Universal Grammar and crosslinguistic influence in the interpretation of recursive set-subset adjectives in adult Romanian L1-English L2 bilinguals.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Intersections between heritage, multilingualism, and education: language acquisition in India.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Hippocampus supports long-term maintenance of language representations: Evidence of impaired collocation knowledge in amnesia.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2025Article
- Language Markers of Dementia and Their Role in Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease: Exploring Grammatical and Syntactic Competence via Sentence Repetition.Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports · 2024Article
- Multilingual Language Diversity Protects Native Language Production under Different Control Demands.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn't, and What It Can Be.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
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Abstract
This review aims at clarifying the concept of first language attrition by tracing its limits, identifying its phenomenological and contextual constraints, discussing controversies associated with its definition, and suggesting potential directions for future research. We start by reviewing different definitions of attrition as well as associated inconsistencies. We then discuss the underlying mechanisms of first language attrition and review available evidence supporting different background hypotheses. Finally, we attempt to provide the groundwork to build a unified theoretical framework allowing for generalizable results. To this end, we suggest the deployment of a rigorous neuroscientific approach, in search of neural markers of first language attrition in different linguistic domains, putting forward hypothetical experimental ways to identify attrition's neural traces and formulating predictions for each of the proposed experimental paradigms.
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