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Language attrition and reactivation in the context of bilingual first language acquisition

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Author	Slavkov, Nikolay
Copyright Year	2014
Description	This paper reports on a case study of a child raised in the context of bilingual first-language acquisition in English and Bulgarian, where the latter represents a minority (heritage) language. Using diary data and spontaneous speech recordings, the study identifies a period of loss of production in Bulgarian (1;7–2;3) and a subsequent reactivation of the passive language facilitated by a brief change in input and social environment during a 10-day trip to Bulgaria. The data are analyzed in terms of proportion of utterances in each language, code-mixing, utterance length, lexical diversity, syntactic complexity, choice of language in narrating stories, and parental discourse strategies. The results are discussed with regards to family socialization factors, including the one-parent, one-language model, and with regards to language attrition and language recovery phenomena. Overall, the study offers a renewed perspective on some long-standing challenges and opportunities associated with the acquisition and maintenance of a minority language, highlights the dynamic nature of childhood bilingualism, and demonstrates that continued input in a language that has become passive can be beneficial.
Related Links	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13670050.2014.941785?needAccess=true
Ending Page	734
Page Count	20
Starting Page	715
ISSN	13670050
e-ISSN	17477522
DOI	10.1080/13670050.2014.941785
Journal	International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Issue Number	6
Volume Number	18
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2014-08-11
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Language Studies Simultaneous Bilingualism Minority Language/heritage Language Attrition Recovery One-parent One-language (1p/1l)/(opol) English/bulgarian
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Linguistics and Language

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