Dear all,

The Language Attrition Network invites you to our next session on the 24th of February at 2pm CET (1pm UK time) on Microsoft Teams.

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We will discuss the paper entitled "Language Attrition Network: Is first language attrition possible without second language knowledge?" with the presence of the authors.

Abstract: The study explores whether Russian immigrants in Israel with no knowledge of Hebrew (L2) can experience attrition of Russian (L1). Immigrants with no knowledge of Hebrew (−Hebrew), bilingual immigrants who know Russian and Hebrew (+Hebrew), and monolingual controls were compared on lexical retrieval, correctness judgment of collocations, future tense formation, confidence in providing answers to two tasks and the time it took to complete them. Both immigrant groups showed signs of L1 attrition of collocations and of future tense formation, and the –Hebrew group performed significantly worse than +Hebrew group on future tense formation. The three groups did not differ in time-on-task. The –Hebrew group was less confident than the other groups in one task. Low and significant correlations were found between some sociolinguistic factors and test results. We conclude that first language attrition can occur both when immigrants acquire a second language and when they remain monolingual.

The paper: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/iral-2016-0066/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOophVjNkiZOv3pjiILt2xJq0MwY8U5OH7QAFEYDii_qYFSMjBmDu

We are looking forward to seeing you online on Microsoft Teams on the 24th! (the link will be sent a couple of days before the event through the mailing list)

Best,
LAN Organization Committee

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Cognitive Science
General Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Psycholinguistics