Language Development Among Holocaust Survivors

This paper addresses the long-term effects of being exposed to a language early in life for a limited period of time, as is the case in international adoptees. Recent findings are divided as to whether such a situation will lead to sequential monolingualism or whether speakers do remain bilingual to some extent, although they cannot readily access their vestigial first language (L1) knowledge.

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This paper provides an overview of research in first language attrition and argues that changes to the first language system are part and parcel of the development of bilingual knowledge and processing.

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This study argues that insights can be gained by comparing advanced late L2 learners with late bilinguals who grew up with the language under investigation as their first language (L1), prior to emigrating to another country.

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This study investigates constraints on ultimate attainment in second language (L2) pronunciation in
a direct comparison of perceived foreign accent of 40 late L2 learners and 40 late first language
(L1) attriters of German.

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The present study investigated which factors would best predict second-language (L2) fluency in a group of long-term L2 speakers of different English varieties with German as their first language.

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This study is an investigation of factors that influence grammatical and lexical complexity at the stage of L2 ultimate attainment.

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