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| Title: | 8-month non-use of a language. A case tudy. A longitudinal study of the effects on non use of one of the languages (Spanish) of a German L1 multilingual |
| Authors: | Mehotcheva, Teodora Hristova |
| Other authors: | Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Traducció i Filologia |
| Subjects: | Multilingüisme
Llengua, desgast de la
Llenguatge i llengües -- Ensenyament |
| Creation Date: | 2007 |
| Abstract: | Under the Dynamic Model of Multilingualism multilinguals are especially vulnerable to language attrition. It was the aim of the present study to verify if this was the case and to observe whether the different linguistic skills (receptive vs. descriptive) and the different linguistic levels (syntactic, lexical, morphological, etc.) would be affected equally.
Data were gathered longitudinally by means of a language test for the subject’s reading, writing, listening and speaking skills as well as her knowledge of grammar and vocabulary.
Although the overall accuracy remained intact and no proof for attrition in the receptive skills was found, the productive skills - mainly fluency - were shown to have suffered from language attrition. This was demonstrated by an increase in the number of pauses, hesitations, repetitions and self-corrections among others and decrease in the percentage of error-free clauses and decrease in the clause length, in oral and written fluency respectively. |
| Appears in Collections: | Treballs de recerca de doctorat
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