forgotten Russian - how to restore it?

[anne marie devlin]

Very interesting point made re: possible psychological damage to the child.  Alina mentioned that the child was at the upper end of the critical period hypothesis and may have questioned its validity.  It has also been suggested that psychological or affective elements can  play a role in language attrition/acquisition.  It seems that in this case they may be instrumental.  Questions to be asked would include the quantity and quality of linguistic input before adoption on the one hand and on the other, the possible psychological  damage done to the child.  And this is a very different question from 'is language attrition complete? '
As for language being somewhere almost inaccessible, it would be nice to think that it remains; however, as far as I know, the evidence is just not there.
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> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:34:54 -0400
> From: meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] forgotten Russian - how to restore it?
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
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> Reminds me of that character in Milorad Pavic, who lived in Paris and made it a near-religious routine to forget one Serbian word per day... Would have been funny were it not heart-breaking. 
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