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What is the source of L1 attrition? The effect of recent L1 re-exposure on Spanish speakers under L1 attrition
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Abstract:
The recent hypothesis that L1 attrition affects the ability to process interface structures but not knowledge representations (Sorace, 2011) is tested by investigating the effects of recent L1 re-exposure on antecedent preferences for Spanish pronominal subjects, using offline judgements and online eye-tracking measures. Participants included a group of native Spanish speakers experiencing L1 attrition (‘attriters’), a second group of attriters exposed exclusively to Spanish before they were tested (‘re-exposed’), and a control group of Spanish monolinguals. The judgement data shows no significant differences between the groups. Moreover, the monolingual and re-exposed groups are not significantly different from each other in the eye-tracking data. The results of this novel manipulation indicate that attrition effects decrease due to L1 re-exposure, and that bilinguals are sensitive to input changes. Taken together, the findings suggest that attrition affects online sensitivity with interface structures rather than causing a permanent change in speakers’ L1 knowledge representations.
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Keyword:
P Philology. Linguistics; PC Romance philology and languages
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URL: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/48565/
https://kar.kent.ac.uk/48565/1/What%20is%20the%20Source%20of%20L1%20Attrition.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728915000152
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