More insights into the interaction between age, exposure, and attitudes in language attrition and retention from the perspective of bilingual returnees
Abstract:Aims and Objectives: The study investigates the effects of age, language use, and attitudes on Portuguese returnee bilinguals’ knowledge of German nominal morphology. We focused on language attrition. In addition, we compared whether the results of returnee bilinguals differ in relevant ways from the performance of L1 speakers of German and, if so, in which domains. Methodology: A background questionnaire and offline tasks that elicit lexical knowledge, case, gender, and plural marking in German were applied t… Show more
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