Second Language Attrition

Language Attrition Research Archive

(LARA)

SECOND LANGUAGE ATTRITION

Publications already listed under "Second Language Loss" in 'Appendix B. Bibliography: Language Skill Attrition Project' by S.G. Williamson (1982:227), in Richard D. Lambert & Barbara F. Freed (eds.), The Loss of Language Skills, are not included.

Aertssen, J., M. Van de Berg, R. Buursen & T. Claasen (1985). Tweedetaalverlies: Verlies van het Engels bij Nederlandse Kinderen, Nijmegen: KUN, Mimeo.

Al-Hazemi, H. (2000). Lexical attrition of some Arabic speakers of English as a foreign language: A study of word loss. TESL Journal. http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Al-Hazemi-Attrition/

Bahrick, Harry P. (1979) Maintenance of knowledge: Questions about memory we forgot to ask. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 108, 296-308.

Bahrick, Harry P. (1984a). Fifty years of second language attrition: Implications for programmatic research. MLJ 68(2), 105-118.

Bahrick, Harry P. (1984b). Associations and organization in cognitive psychology: A reply to Neisser, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 113(1), 36-37.

Bahrick, Harry P. (1984c). Semantic memory content in permastore: 50 years of memory for Spanish learned in school . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 113(1), 1-31.

Bahrick, Harry P., L.E. Bahrick, A.S. Bahrick & P.E. Bahrick (1993). Maintenance of foreign language vocabulary and the spacing effect. Psychological Science 4, 316-321.

Bahrick, Harry & E. Phelps (1987). Retention of Spanish vocabulary over eight years. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 13, 344-349.

Berko-Gleason, Jean (1982). Insights from child language acquisition for second language loss. In Richard.D. Lambert & Barbara F. Freed (eds.). The loss of language skills, 13-23.

Berman, Ruth (1979). The re-emergence of a bilingual: A case study of a Hebrew-English speaking child. Working Papers on Bilingualism, 19, 157-180.

Berman, Ruth A. & Elite Olshtain (1983). Features of first language transfer in second language attrition. Applied Linguistics 4(3), 222-234.

Brown, Cheryl. & Ray Graham (1991). Second language vocabulary acquisition and attrition. Paper presented at TESOL ‘91 annual meeting. New York, March 27, 1991.

Cohen, Andrew D. (1974). The Culver City Spanish Immersion Program: How does summer recess affect Spanish speaking ability? Language Learning, 24(1), 55-68.

Cohen, Andrew D. (1975). Forgetting a second language. Language Learning 25, 127-138.

Cohen, Andrew D. (1986). Forgetting foreign language vocabulary. In Weltens, Bert, Kees DeBot & Theo Van Els (eds.) Language attrition in progress. (pp143-158). Dordrecht, Holland: Foris.

Cohen, Andrew D. (1989). Attrition in the productive lexicon of two Portuguese third language speakers. SSLA 11(2), 135-150.

Cohen, Andrew D. & Bert Weltens (eds.) (1989). Language attrition. SSLA 11(2).

Clark, John L.D. & Eleanor H. Jorden (1984). A study of language attrition in former U.S. students of Japanese and implications for design of curriculum and teaching materials. Final project report, Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics (ED 243 317).

Clyne, Michael G. (1981), 'Second language attrition and first language reversion among elderly bilinguals in Australia', in M. Meid & K. Heller (eds.), Sprachkontakt als Ursache von Veränderungen der Sprach- und Bewußtseinsstruktur, Innsbruck: Institut fhür Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Innsbruck, 25-32.

de Bot, Kees (1989, October). Language attrition: competence loss or performance loss, 20. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, Göttingen: University of Göttingen (printed (1991), in B. Spillner (ed.), Sprache und Politik, Frankfurt - New York: Peter Lang, 63-65).

de Bot, Kees (1999). Forward. In Hansen (ed.). Second language attrition: Evidence from Japanes contexts, pp. vii-viii.

deBot, Kees (2001, April). Language attrition: Products, processes and perceptions. In Agnes Bolonyai and Ludmilla Dutkova-Cope (Chairs). Can spiders forget how to spin spider webs? Language attrition and some unresolved questions. Symposium conducted at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism. Bristol, U.K.

de Bot, Kees & Michael G. Clyne (1989). Language reversion revisited. SSLA 11(2), 167-177.

de Bot, Kees & Bert Weltens (1985). Taalverlies: Beschrijven versus verklaren. Handelingen van het 38e Nederlandse Filologencongres, 51-61.

de Bot, Kees & Bert Weltens (1991a). Regression, recapitulation, and language loss. In Herbert.W. Seliger & R.M. Vago (eds.), First language attrition, 31-52.

de Bot, Kees & Bert Weltens (1995). Foreign language attrition. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 15, 151-164.

de Bot, Kees & Saskia Stoessel (1999, March). Finding residual lexical knowledge: The 'savings'-approach to testing vocabulary. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference, Stamford, Connecticut.

de Bot, Kees & Saskia Stoessel (2000). In search of yesterday's words: Reactivating a long forgotten language. Applied Linguistics 21(3):364-384.

de Bot, Kees & Vanessa Martens (2001). Savings for French as a foreign language: Long-term effects and passive/active transfer. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference. St. Louis, Missouri.

Dugas, Larissa Godish. (1999). Attrition of pronunciation accuracy among advanced American learners of French. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Indiana University.

Dugas, Larissa Godish (2000, September). Attrition of pronunciation accuracy among advanced American learners of French. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, Madison, Wisconsin.

Extra, Guus & Koen Jaspaert (1987, March). Language loss versus language acquisition. Symposium on Pidgin and Creole Languages, Duisburg, Germany.

Fakhri, A. (1989). Variation in the use of referential forms within the context of foreign language loss, in S. Gass et al. (eds.), Variation in second language acquisition, Vol.II. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 180-201.

Freed, Barbara F. & Richard D. Lambert (1980). Report on language attrition conference. SLANT X/2, 65-68.

Fotos, Sandy & Lynne Hansen (1996). Investigating spiritualization: Noticing, processing and the function of time empirical evidence for a cognitive model. http://bahai-library.org/conferences/fotos.hansen.html

Galbraith, N. (1981). A study of transfer in language loss. Some problems and considerations. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Utrecht, Utrecht.

Ginsberg, Ralph B. (1986). Issues in the analysis of language loss: Methodology of the language skills attrition project. In B. Weltens et al. (eds.), Language attrition in progress, 19-36.

Gardner, Robert C., R.N. Lalonde & J. MacPherson (1985). Social factors in second language attrition. Language Learning 35(4), 519-540.

Gardner, Robert C., R.N. Lalonde, R. Moorcroft & F.T. Evers (1987). Second language attrition: The role of motivation and use. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 6(1), 29-47.

Gardner, Robert C. & Lysynchuk, L.M. (1990). The role of aptitude, attitudes, motivation and language use in second-language acquisition and retention. Candian Journal of Behavioral Science (3), 254-270.

Geoghegan, B. (1950). The retention of certain secondary school subject matter over the period of summer vacation. Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Fordham University.

Godsall-Myers, Jean E. (1981). The attrition of language skills in German classroom bilinguals - A case study, Dissertation Abstracts International, July 1982, 43/01:157-A.

Graham, C.Ray (1990). What is lost and why: A study of language attrition among fluent adult speakers of Spanish as a second language. Paper presented at Deseret Language and Linguistics Symposium, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1990 .

Grendel, Marjon (1990, April). Attrition and reactivation of French lexical aspects, AILA - 9^th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki (in Conference Abstracts, Vol.1, 40).

Grendel, Marjon (1990). Verlies en herstel van Franse woordenkennis [Loss and recovery of French lexical knowledge], Gramma, Tijdschrift voor Taalkunde 14, 127-137.

Grendel, Marjon (1993). Verlies en herstel van lexicale kennis, PhD thesis, Nijmegen: KUN.

Grendel, Marjon, Bert Weltens & Kees De Bot (1993, August). Language attrition: Rise and fall of a research topic? Paper presented at AILA - 10^th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Amsterdam (in Conference Abstracts, 355) [printed as Language attrition: Rise and fall of a research topic. Toegepaste Taalwetenshap in Artikelen 46/47, 59-68].

Gunnewiek, M.S. (1989). Structural aspects of the loss of Portuguese among migrants. I.T.L. Review of Applied Linguistics, 83, 99-124.

Hansen, Lynne (1980), Learning and forgetting a second language: The acquisition, loss and reacquisition of Hindi-Urdu negative structures by English-speaking children. Unpublished doctoral dissertation,University of California, Berkeley. Dissertation Abstracts International, 42,193A.

Hansen, Lynne (1983). The acquisition and forgetting of Hindu-Urdu negation by English-speaking children. In Kathleen M Bailey, Michael H. Long & Sabrina Peck (eds.). Second language acquisition studies (pp. 91-103) Rowley, MA: Newbury House.

Hansen-Strain, Lynne (l990). The attrition of Japanese by English-speaking children: an interim report. Language Sciences 12(4):367-377.

Hansen-Strain, Lynne (1992). Language loss over a break in instruction: Negation in the L2 Japanese of American high school students, Proceedings of the 4^th Conference on Second Language Research in Japan (pp.123-134). Niigata: International University of Japan.

Hansen-Strain, Lynne (1993). The attrition of Japanese negation by English-speaking adults. Paper presented at the AILA - 10^th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Amsterdam (in Conference Abstracts, 114).

Hansen-Strain, Lynne (1993). The study of language attrition: Korean and Japanese contexts. Paper presented at the 1st annual Korea-TESOL convention, Iri, Korea.

Hansen-Strain, Lynne (1994). Japanese perspectives on language maintenance and loss. Paper presented at the JACET - 33rd annual conferenc of the Japan Association of College English Teachers, Omiya, Japan.

Hansen, Lynne (1996, August). Fitting together the pieces: attrition curves in the longterm attrition of a second language. In Lynne Hansen (Chair). Language Attrition from Cross-disciplinary Perspectives. Symposium conducted at AILA - 11^th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Jyväskylä, Finland: University of Jyväskylä (in Conference Abstracts, 48).

Hansen, Lynne (ed.) (1999). Second language attrition in Japanese contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hansen, Lynne (1999, August). What we think we have learned about second language attrition. In Lynne Hansen & Dorit Kaufman (Chairs). Language Attrition: Retrospection and Future Directions. Symposium conducted at the AILA-12th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Waseda University, Tokyo.

Hansen, Lynne (1999, December). Language regression in bilingualism: A twenty year restrospect on second language attrition research. Plenary talk given at the conference on ‘Bilingualism: Acquisition and Attrition’, Applied Linguistics Association of Korea, Seoul.

Hansen, Lynne (1999). Not a total loss: The attrition of Japanese negation over three decades. In Hansen (ed.). Second language attrition: Evidence from Japanese contexts, 142-153

Hansen, Lynne (2000, September). Forgotten but not gone: Extending the savings paradigm in the recovery of lost L2 vocabulary and syntax. In Dorit Kaufman (Chair). Language attrition: Crosslinguistic interplay and sociolinguistic perspectives. Symposi ndumucted at the Second Language Research Forum, Madison, Wisconsin.

Hansen, Lynne (2001). Language attrition in contexts of Japanese bilingualism. In Mary Noguchi & Sandra Fotos (eds.). Studies in Japanese bilingualism. London: Multilingual Matters.

Hansen, Lynne. (2001). Language attrition: The fate of the start. In Mary McGroarty (ed.). Annual Review of of Applied Linguistics, 21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hansen, Lynne & Joseph Stokes (1997) The sounds and silence of hesitation: Pause phenomena in the acquisition and attrition of L2 Japanese. In Jonathan Leather & Allan James (eds.). New Sounds ‘97: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second-Language Speech (pp. 118-124). Klagenfurt: University of Klagenfurt.

Hansen, Lynne & Jesse Newbold (1997, March). Literacy as an anchor for the spoken language: Evidence from adult attriters of L2. In Dorit Kaufman & Lynne Hansen. First and Second Language Attrition Insights from Production Data. Symposium conducted at the AAAL Annual Conference. Orlando, FL (in Conference Abstracts, 77). Published in Peter Robinson (ed.). (2001). JAMS volume. Tokyo: JALT.

Hansen, Lynne, James Gardner & James Pollard (1998). The measurement of fluency in a second language: Evidence from the acquisition and attrition of Japanese. In Brad Visgatis (ed.). JALT'97: Trends & transitions, Proceedings of the JALT 1997 International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning. Tokyo: Japan Association for Language Teaching.

Hansen, Lynne & Ching-Fen Chantrill (1999). Literacy as a second language anchor: Evidence from L2 Japanese and L2 Chinese. In Peter Robinson (ed.). Representation and process: Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific Second Language Research Forum, Vol. 1 (pp. 279-286), Tokyo: PacSLRF'99, Aoyama University.

Hansen, Lynne & Anita Reetz-Kurashige (1999). Investigating second language attrition: An introduction. In Hansen. Second language attrition in Japanese contexts, 3-20.

Hansen, Lynne & Justin Shewell (1999, December). The role of alphabetic literacy in second language retention: The case of Korean. Paper presented at the conference on 'Bilingualism: Acquisition and Attrition', Applied Linguistics Association of Korea, Seoul.

Hansen, Lynne & Yung-Lin Chen (forthcoming, 2001) What counts in the acquisition and attrition of numeral classifiers? JALT Journal.

Hansen, Lynne, Yukako Umeda & Melanie McKinney (2000, March). Forgotten but not gone: The use of the savings paradigm in the recovery of L2 Japanese and L2 Korean lexical knowledge. Paper presented at the AAAL conference, Vancouver, B.C.

Lynne Hansen, Junko Tsukayama & Ryan Ottley (2000, November). Hesitation and laughter in L2 Japanese attrition. In Lynne Hansen (Chair). The L2 speech of returnees: Maintenance and attrition back home. Symposium conducted at the Japanese Association of Language Teachers conference. Tokyo.

Hayashi, Brenda (1999). Testing the regression hypothesis: The remains of the Japanese negation system in Micronesia. In Lynne Hansen (ed.). Second language attrition: Evidence from Japanese contexts, 154-168.

Hedgcock, John (1991a). Foreign language retention and attrition: a study of maintenance patterns among adult learners of Spanish. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Hedgcock, John (1991b). Foreign language retention and attrition: a study of regression models. Foreign Language Annals 24, 43-55.

Henzl, Vera M. (1977). On similarity between language acquisition and language loss. Second Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Hill, Jane H. (1989). Language attrition in progress - book review. Language in Society 18/4, 594-598.

Hyltenstam, K. & Åke Viberg (1994). Progression and regression in language: sociocultural neuropsychological and linguistic perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ishiguro, Toshiaki (1994). Two suggested threshold levels in L1 and L2 attrition processes. Studies in Humanities 12 [Tokyo: Kanagawa University].

Isurin, Ludmila (1996). Foreign language loss and re-acquisition in immigration. Poster Session, AILA - 11^th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Jyväskylä, Finland: University of Jyväskylä (in Conference Abstracts, 116).

Ioup, Georgette (2000, September). Age differences in forgetting a language. In Dorit Kaufman (Chair). Language attrition: Crosslinguistic interplay and sociolinguistic perspectives. Symposium conducted at the Second Language Research Forum, Madison, Wisconsin.In Dorit Kaufman (Chair). Second Language Research Forum, Madison, Wisconsin.

Jaspaert, Koen & Sjaak Kroon (1987). The relationship between global language proficiency tests and language loss. In F. Beukema & P. Coopmans (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1987, Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 91-100.

Jordens, Peter, Kees de Bot, C. Van Os & J. Schumans (1986). Regression in German case marking. In Weltens et al. (eds.). Language attrition in progress, 159-176.

Jordens, Peter, Kees De Bot & H. Trapman (1989). Linguistic aspects of regression in German case marking. SSLA 11(2), 179-204.

Kennedy, L. (1932). The retention of certain Latin syntactical principles by first and second year Latin students after various time intervals. Journal of Educational Psychology 23, 132-146.

Koike, Ikuo (1990). How the Japanese children lose English as a second language. Paper presented at the AILA - 9^th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki (in Conference Abstracts as 'How the children lose English as a second language', Vol.1, 8).

Kolk, Hermanus H.J. (1974). Experiments in forgetting: type of stimulus and response-class in retroactive inhibition. Nijmegen: KUN.

Kuhberg, Heinz (1992). Longitudinal L2-attrition versus L2-acquisition in three Turkish children - Empirical findings. Second Language Research 8(2) 138-154.

Lambert, Richard D. (1987). Language attrition. Paper presented at the AILA - 8^th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney: University of Sydney (printed (1989) in ITL Review of Applied Linguistics 83-84, 1-18).

Lambert, Richard D. (1989), Language attrition. I.T.L. Review of Applied Linguistics, 83, 1-18.

Lambert, Richard D. (1980). Language skill attrition. Conference initiates research in new subfield. The Linguistic Reporter 23(1) 1-3.

Lambert, Richard D. & Sarah J. Moore (1984). Recent research on language skill attrition. ERIC/CLL News Bulletin 8, 1-8.

Lambert, Richard D. & Sarah J. Moore (1986). Problem areas in the study of language attrition. In Bert Weltens et al. (eds.), Language attrition in progress, 177-186.

Lambert, Richard. D. & Barbara F. Freed (eds.) (1982). The loss of language skills. Rowley, MA: Newbury House Publishers.

Lambert, Richard D. & Richard Tucker (1981). Newsletter: Language attrition project', Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1(1), 1-4.

Lee, Dami (2000, November). L2 Retention and attrition of Korean/English Bilingual Children. In Lynne Hansen (Chair). The L2 speech of returnees: Maintenance and attrition back home. Symposium conducted at the Japanese Association of Language Teachers conference. Tokyo.

Mauerman, P. (1985). Language attrition in French-speaking missionaries. Unpublished master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Madigan, Stephen A. & Linda McCabe, L. (1971). Perfect recall and total forgetting: A problem for models of short-term memory. JVLVB 10, 101-106.

McMahon, N. (1946). The effects of summer vacation on retention of Latin vocabulary. Unpublished master's thesis, Fordham University, New York.

McMeniman, Marilyn M. (1981). Attrition in French at the secondary school level. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Queensland, Brisbane.

Messelink, J. & H. Verkuylen (1984). Het verlies van woordenkennis van het Frans, doctoral project, Nijmegen: KUN.

Moorcroft, R. & Robert C. Gardner (1987). Linguistic factors in second-language loss. Language Learning 37(3) 327-340.

Moncado, A.G. (1995). Language attrition and retention among non-native speaker EFL teachers. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook.

Montrul, Silvina (2001, April). Attrition in Spanish-English bilinguals in the tense/aspect domain: A view from universal grammar. Paper presented at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism. Bristol, U.K.

Nagasawa, Sumiko (1999). The effects of initial achievement, learning experience and classroom instruction on adult attrition/retention of L2 Japanese. In Peter Robinson (ed.). Representation and process: Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific Second Language Research Forum, Vol. 1 (pp. 287-296), Tokyo: PacSLRF'99 Aoyama University.

Nakazawa, Y. (1989a). Kikoku shijo no gaikokugo shori kate to sono sokute hoho nituite [On the foreign language processing of returnees and its measurement]. In Kikoku shijo no gaikokugo hoji ni kansuru chosa kenkyu hokokusho [A survey on the foreign language retention of returnees] (Vol. 1), (pp. 820122).

Nakazawa, Y. (1989b). Kokoku shijo no nihon kokokugo no gaigokugo iji teedo o ketteesuru yooin ni tuiteno choosa [A report on the factor that determine foreign language retention of returnees after returning to Japan.] In Kikoku shijo no gaikokugo hoji ni kansuru chosa kenkyu hokokusho [A survey on the foreign language retention of returnees] (Vol. 1), (pp. 29_59). Tokyo: Kaigai shijo kyoiku shinko zaidan [Japan Overseas Student Education Foundation].

Nakazawa, Y., & Yoshitomi, A. (1990). Kikoku shijo no gaikokugo shori kate to sono sokute hoho ni tuite 2 [On the foregin language processing of returnees and its measurement 2]. In Kikoku shijo no gaikokugo hoji ni Kansuru chosa kenkyu hokokusho [A survey on the foreign language retention of returnees] (vol. 2), (pp. 42_52). Tokyo: Kaigai shijo kyoiku shinko zaidan [Japan Overseas Student Education Foundation].

Nakuma, C. 1997. A method for measuring the attrition of communicative competence: A pilot study with Spanish L3 subjects. Applied Psycholinguictics, 18, 219-235.

Neisser, Ulric (1984). Interpreting Harry Bahrick's discovery: What confers immunity against forgetting? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 113(3) 32-35.

Nelson, Thomas O. (1971). Savings and forgetting from long-term memory. JVLVB 10, 568-576.

Nelson, Thomas O. (1978), 'Detecting small amounts of information in memory: Savings for nonrecognized items', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory 4, 5, 453-468.

Nelson, Thomas O. (1985). Ebbinghaus's contribution to the measurement of retention: Savings during relearning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory 11, 3, 472-479.

Nelson, Thomas O., D. Gerler & L. Narens (1984). Accuracy of feeling-of-knowing judgements for predicting perceptual identification and relearning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 113, 2, 282-300.

Obler, Lorraine K. (1982). Neurolinguistic aspects of language loss as they pertain to second language attrition. In Lambert & Freed (eds.), The loss of language skills, 60-79.

Olshtain, Elite (l986). The attrition of English as a second language with speakers of Hebrew. In Bert Weltens, Kees de Bot and Theo van Els (eds). Language attrition in progress. (pp.187-204) Dordrecht, Holland: Foris.

Olshtain, Elite (l989). Is second language attrition the reversal of second language acquisition? SSLA, 11, 151-165.

Olshtain, Elite (1994). Metalinguistic accessibility as an indication of adult primary language attrition. Paper presented at the AAAL annual conference. Baltimore, Maryland.

Olshtain, E. & M. Barzelay (1991). Lexical retrieval difficulties in adult language attrition. In H. Seliger and R. Vago (ed.) First language attrition. (pp 139-150). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Oxford, Rebecca L. (1982a). Research on language loss: A review with implications for foreign language teaching. Modern Language Journal 66(2), 160-169.

Oxford, Rebecca L. (1982b). Technical issues in designing and conducting research on language skill attrition. In Richard.D. Lambert & Barbara F. Freed (eds.), The loss of language skills, 119-137.

Pan, B. & Berko-Gleason, J. (1986). The study of language loss: models and hypotheses for an emerging discipline. Applied Psycholinguistics, 7, 193-206.

Pino-Silva, J. (1989). A study of children's language proficiency over time. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University.

Polinsky, Maria (1993). Language attrition and pidgin/creole syntax. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America and Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Los Angeles.

Polinsky, Maria (1995). The grammar of language loss: cross-linguistic parallels and language-internal correlations. Paper presented at the Symposium on Language Loss, University of New Mexico.

Pons, C.R. (1989).Book review of "Language attrition in progress". SSLA 11/2, 217-218.

Preston, Dennis (1982). How to lose a language. Interlanguage Studies Bulletin 6/2, 64-87.<

Raffaldini, T. (1987). Attrition of communicative ability among former year abroad students of French. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington (in Dissertation Abstracts International, October 1988, 49/04:807-A).

Reetz-Kurashige, Anita (1997). Tracking Japanese returnees’ English verb usage … back home. In Dorit Kaufman & Lynne Hansen (Chairs). First and Second Language Attrition Insights from Production Data. Symposium conducted at the AAAL Annual Conference, Orlando, FL (in Conference Abstracts, 77).

Reetz-Kurashige, Anita (1999). Tracking returnees’ retention of English speaking skills: Changes in verb usage over time. In L. Hansen (ed.), Second language attrition: Evidence from Japanese contexts, 21-58.

Reetz-Kurashige, Anita (1999). Kikoku shijo wa Eigo o tamotsu shiteiru ka [Are Japanese returnees maintaining their English?) in M. Yamamoto (ed.), Bairingaru no Sekai [Bilingual World]. Tokyo: Taishukan.

Robison, R. (1985). Language attrition in secondary school students of Spanish. In a. Labarca (Ed.), ssues in L2: Theory as practice/practice as theory (pp. 266-278). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Russell, Robert (1995). Measuring changes in productive L2 Japanese lexical competence. AAAL Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA.

Russell, Robert (1996, August). Hesitation and repair behavior in L2 Japanese attrition. Symposium ‘Language Attrition from Cross-disciplinary Perspectives’, AILA - 11^th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Jyväskylä, Finland: University of Jyväskylä (in Conference Abstracts, 48).

Russell, Robert (1999a). Measuring attrition in L2 Japanese syntactic competence. In Peter Robinson (ed.). Representation and process: Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific Second Language Research Forum, Vol. 1 (pp. 297-308), Tokyo: PacSLRF'99, Aoyama University.

Russell, Robert (1999b). Lexical maintenance and attrition in Japanese as a second language. In Lynne Hansen (ed.). Second language attrition: Evidence from Japanese contexts, 114-141.

Russell, Robert (2000, September). Attrition in English native speakers' L2 production of Japanese: 10 years later.In Dorit Kaufman (Chair). Language attrition: Crosslinguistic interplay and sociolinguistic perspectives. Symposium conducted at the Second Language Research Forum, Madison, Wisconsin.

Schappis, U. (1988), 'The aged of non-English speaking background in Australia', in P. Brown (ed.), Health care and the aged: A nursing perspective, Sydney: Williams & Williams.

Scherer, G.A.C. (1957). The forgetting rate of learning German. German Quarterly, 30, 275-277. Francisco.

Schneider, Melanie (2000, September) Easy come easy go: A story of attrition in child SLA. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, Madison, Wisconsin.

Schneider, Melanie. (2001). Losing it: Some evidence for stages in L2 attrition in children. Paper presented at AAAL 2001, St. Louis, Missouri.

Seya, H. (1990). Kikoku shijo no eigo shiin no onchikaku to goi sutorateji no shiyo [The perception of English consonants and use of lexical strategies by returnees]. In Kikoku shijo no gaikokugo hoji ni kansuru chosa kenkyu hokokusho [A survey on the foreign language retention of returnees] (Vol. 2), (pp. 29_41). Tokyo: Kaigai shijo kyoiku shinko zaidan [Japan Overseas Student Education Foundation].

Sharwood Smith, Michael A. (1983a). On explaining language loss. In S.W. Felix & H. Wode (eds.). Language development at the crossroads. Papers from the interdisciplinary conference on language acquisition in Passau, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 49-59.

Sharwood Smith, Michael A. (1989). Crosslinguistic influence in language loss. In K. Hyltenstam & L.K. Obler (eds.), Bilingualism across the lifespan, 185-201.

Sharwood Smith, Michael A. (2001, April). The unsteady state: An SLA perspective on first language attrition. In Agnes Bolonyai and Ludmilla Dutkova-Cope (Chairs). Can spiders forget how to spin spider webs? Language attrition and some unresolved questions. Symposium conducted at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism. Bristol, U.K.

Silva-Corvalán, Carmen (1987, July). Language loss and development: Some implications for linguistic theory. Second Language Acquisition: Contributions and Challenges to Linguistic Theory Conference, Stanford, CA: Stanford University.

Silva-Corvalán, Carmen (1990). Language attrition in progress - Book Review. Linguistics 28(1), 153-157.

Silva-Corvalan, Carmen (2001, April). Linguistic consequences of impoverished input in bilingual first language acquisition. In Agnes Bolonyai and Ludmilla Dutkova-Cope (Chairs). Can spiders forget how to spin spider webs? Language attrition and some unresolved questions. Symposium conducted at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism. Bristol, U.K.

Smith, Michael T. (1995). Tracking verb usage in adult speakers of Spanish as a second language: An attrition study. Unpublished master's thesis, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Smythe, P.C., Jutras, G.C., Bramwell, J.R., & Gardner, R.C. (1973). Second language retention over varying intervals. The Modern Language Journal, 57, 400-405.

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