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Date: 27-Jan-2026
From: Eric Burgstede [eric at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism Vol. 16, No. 1 (2026)


Publisher: John Benjamins
                        http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Volume Number: 16
Issue Number: 1
Issue Date: 20260127

Subtitle: Epistemological issue

Main Text:

2026.  v, 100 pp.
Table of Contents
Article
What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition,
language stabilization, and individual variation
Cristina Flores & Neal Snape
pp. 1–25
Commentaries
What returnee international adoptees may teach us about language
attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation
Mirjam Broersma
pp. 26–30
The other side of the coin matters too: What changes in the former
heritage language of returnees may reveal about the dynamics of
bilingual language acquisition
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz
pp. 31–35
About the complexity of the study of complex realities
Barbara Köpke
pp. 36–40
Problematizing the notion of “stabilization”: From description to
prediction in returnee research
Maki Kubota
pp. 41–45
Who qualifies as ‘returnee’, and can one be truly cut off from a
former societal language upon return?
Tim Joris Laméris
pp. 46–50
What can only returnees teach us about language?
Polina Pleshak & Maria Polinsky
pp. 51–56
Returnee bilingualism and the dynamics of heritage language attrition
and re-stabilization
Anabela Rato
pp. 57–61
Age effects in “returnee” bilingualism: Problematizing their
conflation as prima facie evidence for linguistic maturation
Patrick Rebuschat & Jason L. Rothman
pp. 62–67
The other side of the coin: Linguistic complexity as a potential cause
for selective reinforcement in the heritage language of returnee
speakers
Esther Rinke & Aldona Sopata
pp. 68–72
A dynamic model of fluctuation and re‑stabilization
Liliana Sánchez & Michael T. Putnam
pp. 73–76
Turning to returnees: Differential development or attrition?
Elena Schmitt
pp. 77–81
Emergentism meets attrition: Returnee children as a lens on lifespan
language dynamics
Hideyuki Taura
pp. 82–84
Continuities and discontinuities in L2 exposure among returnees: How
plausible is a clean break with English or German after return?
Jeanine Treffers-Daller & Hadil Alraddadi
pp. 85–89
International migration and linguistic vicissitudes
Víctor Zúñiga
pp. 90–93
Response to the commentaries
What returnee bilinguals continue to teach us: Embracing a dynamic and
linguistically grounded perspective on bilingual language development
Cristina Flores & Neal Snape
pp. 94–100

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Psycholinguistics




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