First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Can Be
This review aims at clarifying the concept of first language attrition by tracing its limits, identifying its phenomenological and contextual constraints, discussing controversies associated with its definition, and suggesting potential directions for future research. We start by reviewing different...
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| description | This review aims at clarifying the concept of first language attrition by tracing its limits, identifying its phenomenological and contextual constraints, discussing controversies associated with its definition, and suggesting potential directions for future research. We start by reviewing different definitions of attrition as well as associated inconsistencies. We then discuss the underlying mechanisms of first language attrition and review available evidence supporting different background hypotheses. Finally, we attempt to provide the groundwork to build a unified theoretical framework allowing for generalizable results. To this end, we suggest the deployment of a rigorous neuroscientific approach, in search of neural markers of first language attrition in different linguistic domains, putting forward hypothetical experimental ways to identify attrition’s neural traces and formulating predictions for each of the proposed experimental paradigms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68a6562e24c14746b977e1498de8a3962022-12-21T22:38:24ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience1662-51612021-09-011510.3389/fnhum.2021.686388686388First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Can BeFederico Gallo0Federico Gallo1Beatriz Bermudez-Margaretto2Yury Shtyrov3Yury Shtyrov4Jubin Abutalebi5Jubin Abutalebi6Hamutal Kreiner7Hamutal Kreiner8Tamara Chitaya9Anna Petrova10Andriy Myachykov11Andriy Myachykov12Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Russian Federation, Moscow, RussiaCentre for Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics (CNPL), Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, ItalyCentre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Russian Federation, Moscow, RussiaCentre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Russian Federation, Moscow, RussiaCenter of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DenmarkCentre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Russian Federation, Moscow, RussiaCentre for Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics (CNPL), Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, ItalyCentre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Russian Federation, Moscow, RussiaDepartment of Behavioral Sciences, Linguistic Cognition Laboratory, Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer, IsraelCentre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Russian Federation, Moscow, RussiaCentre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Russian Federation, Moscow, RussiaCentre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Russian Federation, Moscow, RussiaDepartment of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomThis review aims at clarifying the concept of first language attrition by tracing its limits, identifying its phenomenological and contextual constraints, discussing controversies associated with its definition, and suggesting potential directions for future research. We start by reviewing different definitions of attrition as well as associated inconsistencies. We then discuss the underlying mechanisms of first language attrition and review available evidence supporting different background hypotheses. Finally, we attempt to provide the groundwork to build a unified theoretical framework allowing for generalizable results. To this end, we suggest the deployment of a rigorous neuroscientific approach, in search of neural markers of first language attrition in different linguistic domains, putting forward hypothetical experimental ways to identify attrition’s neural traces and formulating predictions for each of the proposed experimental paradigms.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.686388/fullfirst language attritionbilingualismcross-linguistic interactionsEEG/MEGfMRI |
| spellingShingle | Federico Gallo Federico Gallo Beatriz Bermudez-Margaretto Yury Shtyrov Yury Shtyrov Jubin Abutalebi Jubin Abutalebi Hamutal Kreiner Hamutal Kreiner Tamara Chitaya Anna Petrova Andriy Myachykov Andriy Myachykov First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Can Be Frontiers in Human Neuroscience first language attrition bilingualism cross-linguistic interactions EEG/MEG fMRI |
| title | First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Can Be |
| title_full | First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Can Be |
| title_fullStr | First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Can Be |
| title_full_unstemmed | First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Can Be |
| title_short | First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Can Be |
| title_sort | first language attrition what it is what it isn t and what it can be |
| topic | first language attrition bilingualism cross-linguistic interactions EEG/MEG fMRI |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.686388/full |
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