The effect of age on language attrition : evidences from bilingual returnees

The present study investigates the syntactic competence of bilingual Portuguese-German returnees who have lost regular contact with their L2 (German). The main criterion which distinguishes the participants is the age of input loss. This allows their division into two main groups: speakers who lost...

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Main Author: Flores, Cristina (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/11252
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/11252