Introduction to Language Attrition

<p>This introductory text brings together diverse perspectives and research streams on language attrition - forgetting or loss of language proficiency that can take place in one's first or additional language for different reasons and at different life stages.</p><p>Offering a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview Michael T. Putnam and David Natvig define key concepts and the contemporary debates in the field discussing a variety of structural/grammatical societal and psychological/cognitive aspects of this phenomenon and their implications for linguistic theory and language learning.</p><p>Setting the future research agenda on this subject and with helpful features like discussion questions this will be an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers of theoretical & applied linguistics bilingualism & heritage linguistics psycholinguistics sociolinguistics education and beyond.</p>