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Language Attrition Research: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Bert Weltens  and
Andrew D. Cohen
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The study of language loss—or language attrition—was recognized as a field in 1980, when the University of Pennsylvania hosted the first conference ever on the theme. Most of the contributions to this conference stressed the need for systematic empirical investigation of the phenomenon of language attrition, which everybody seems to know about, but which very few scientists had actually looked into.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 1989 , pp. 127 - 133
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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