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<br> Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism <br> Re-examining the Age Factor <br>Series Title: Studies in Bilingualism 39 <br>Published: 2008 <br>Publisher: John Benjamins<br> <a href="http://www.benjamins.com/">http://www.benjamins.com/ </a><br>
<br>Book URL: <a href="http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SiBil%2039">http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SiBil%2039 </a><br><br>Author: Silvina A. Montrul <br><br>Abstract:<br><br>Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical <br>
perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely <br>new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of <br>the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage <br>
speakers who, unlike adult second language learners, acquired two or more <br>languages in childhood. Despite having been exposed to their family <br>language early in life, many of these speakers never fully acquire, or <br>
later lose, aspects of their first language sometime in childhood. The book <br>examines the structural characteristics of "incomplete" grammatical states <br>and highlights how age of acquisition is related to the type of linguistic <br>
knowledge and behavior that emerges in L1 and L2 acquisition under <br>different environmental circumstances. By underscoring age of acquisition <br>as a unifying factor in the study of L2 acquisition and L1 attrition, it is <br>
claimed that just as there are age effects in L2 acquisition, there are <br>also age effects, or even perhaps a critical period, in L1 attrition. The <br>book covers adult L2 acquisition, attrition in adults and in children, and <br>
includes a comparison of adult heritage language speakers and second <br>language learners. </div>
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