Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. I. GENERAL PAPERS
5. An Overview of European Research on Language Attrition 3
6. Issues in the Analysis of Language Loss: Methodology of the Language Skills Attrition Project 19
7. Points of Reference in First-Language Loss Research 37
8. II. DIALECT LOSS
9. The Selection of Linguistic Variables in Empirical Research on Variation and Change in Dialects 53
10. Functional and Structural Aspects of Dialect Loss: A Research Plan and Some First Results 75
11. III. FIRST-LANGUAGE LOSS
12. Using the Present to Predict the Future in Language Contact: The Case of Immigrant Minority Languages in Sweden 99
13. Language Loss and Symbolic Gain: The Meaning of Institutional Maintenance 117
14. IV. SECOND- AND FOREIGN-LANGUAGE LOSS
15. Foreign-Language Proficiency in the Elderly 131
16. Forgetting Foreign-Language Vocabulary 143
17. Regression in German Case Marking 159
18. Problem Areas in the Study of Language Attrition 177
19. The Attrition of English as a Second Language with Speakers of Hebrew 187
20. The Attrition of French as a Foreign Language: Interim Results 205
21. List of Contributors 223