TY - JOUR

T1 - You win some, you lose some

T2 - Comprehension and event-related potential evidence for L1 attrition

AU - Miller, David

AU - Rothman, Jason

N1 - Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2019 Cambridge University Press.

PY - 2020/8/1

Y1 - 2020/8/1

N2 - We examine first language (L1) attrition among 30 L1 Spanish-L2 English speakers living in the United Kingdom. We also tested 30 recently-arrived Spaniards to the UK as a baseline. We present several key findings: 1) attrition fluctuates over time and does not affect all individuals equally; 2) entropy can explain said fluctuation of attritional affects over time such that while length of residence and age of arrival may affect the depth of attrition, how often one is exposed to her native language, how often she uses it and for how long each day, who her friends are, and to which types of input she is regularly exposed, seemingly aid in the maintenance or loss of linguistic knowledge; 3) though offline scalar interpretations among bilinguals were predicted by canonical sociolinguistic variables, the online data revealed an overall insensitivity to pragmatic violations. Thus, offline and online methods combine to be more explanatory regarding the comprehension and processing of implicature generating quantifiers.

AB - We examine first language (L1) attrition among 30 L1 Spanish-L2 English speakers living in the United Kingdom. We also tested 30 recently-arrived Spaniards to the UK as a baseline. We present several key findings: 1) attrition fluctuates over time and does not affect all individuals equally; 2) entropy can explain said fluctuation of attritional affects over time such that while length of residence and age of arrival may affect the depth of attrition, how often one is exposed to her native language, how often she uses it and for how long each day, who her friends are, and to which types of input she is regularly exposed, seemingly aid in the maintenance or loss of linguistic knowledge; 3) though offline scalar interpretations among bilinguals were predicted by canonical sociolinguistic variables, the online data revealed an overall insensitivity to pragmatic violations. Thus, offline and online methods combine to be more explanatory regarding the comprehension and processing of implicature generating quantifiers.

KW - event-related potentials

KW - language attrition

KW - scalar implicatures

KW - semantic-pragmatics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076777787&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1017/S1366728919000737

DO - 10.1017/S1366728919000737

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85076777787

VL - 23

SP - 869

EP - 883

JO - Bilingualism

JF - Bilingualism

SN - 1366-7289

IS - 4

ER -