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The Regression Hypothesis as a Framework for First Language Attrition
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Keijzer, Merel – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
In an attempt to explain first language attrition in emigrant populations, this paper investigates the explanatory power of a framework that has--until now--received little attention: the regression hypothesis (Jakobson, 1941). This hypothesis predicts that the order of attrition is the reverse of the order of acquisition. The regression…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Syntax, Systems Approach, Foreign Countries
Codeswitching and Generative Grammar: A Critique of the MLF Model and Some Remarks on "Modified Minimalism"
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MacSwan, Jeff – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2005
This article presents an empirical and theoretical critique of the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model (Myers-Scotton, 1993; Myers-Scotton and Jake, 2001), and includes a response to Jake, Myers-Scotton and Gross's (2002) (JMSG) critique of MacSwan (1999, 2000) and reactions to their revision of the MLF model as a "modified minimalist approach." The…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Linguistic Borrowing, Syntax, Bilingualism