First Language Attrition -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Attrition and second language acquisition -- Acknowledgements -- Attrition et acquisition d'une langue seconde -- Remerciements -- References -- L'attrition de la première langue en tant que phénomène psycholinguistique -- 1. Qu'est-ce que l'attrition? -- 1.1. Attrition individuelle ou glissement communautaire? -- 1.2 Attrition ou acquisition incomplète? -- 1.3 Effet d'attrition ou effet de bilinguisme? -- 2. Comment survient l'attrition? -- 2.1 Mécanismes neuropsycholinguistiques en jeu dans l'attrition -- 2.1.1 La plasticité -- 2.1.2 Mémoire et fonctions exécutives -- 2.1.3 Ancrage émotionnel -- 2.1.4 Activation et inhibition -- 2.2 Manifestations psycholinguistiques de l'attrition -- 2.2.1 L'effet de la tâche -- 2.2.2 Mesures du traitement on-line -- 3. Quo vadis, attrition? -- Remerciements -- References -- Abstract -- Restructuring in the L1 Turkish grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic characterization of incomplete acquisition and attrition in the L1 -- 2.1 Inter-generational L1 grammar -- 2.2 Intra-generational L1 grammar -- 3. Previous studies on language change in the L1 Turkish -- 4. Linguistic structure under investigation -- 4.1 Binding of pronouns -- 4.1.1 English -- 4.1.2 Dutch -- 4.1.3 Turkish -- 5. Research questions -- 5.1 Predictions -- 6. Study -- 6.1 Participants -- 6.1.1 The North American group -- 6.1.2 The European group -- 6.1.3 The control group -- 6.2 Task -- 7. Results -- 8. Discussion -- 9. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Résumé -- Complex embeddings in free speech production among late Turkish-Dutch bilinguals -- 1. Attrition of L1 morphosyntax among adult bilinguals -- 2. Complex embeddings in Turkish -- 2.1 Complex Embedding in Turkish -- 2.1.1 Least marked: Gerunds -- 2.1.2 Less marked: Participles.

2.1.3 Marked: Nominalizations -- 2.1.4 Most marked: Postpositional clauses -- 3. Turkish in the Netherlands: The impact of external factors -- 4. The study -- 4.1 Participants -- 4.2 Procedure -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Quantitative results -- 5.2 Qualitative results -- 5.3 Summary of the results -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Résumé -- First language retention and attrition in an adult Guatemalan adoptee -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Age effects in language attrition -- 3. Reduced versus interrupted input -- 4. The case study -- 4.1 Approach -- 4.2 The participant -- 4.3 Instruments -- 4.4 Results -- 4.4.1 Gender agreement -- 4.4.2 Differential Object Marking (DOM) -- 4.4.3 Verbal morphology -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Résumé -- Optionality in bilingual native grammars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical framework -- 3. The linguistic phenomenon -- 4. Method -- 4.1 Subjects -- 4.2 Materials -- 4.2.1 Task 1: Oral Production of Wh-Matrix Questions -- 4.2.2 Task 2: Oral Production of Relative Clauses -- 4.2.3 Task 3: Written Production of Relative Clauses -- 4.2.4 Task 4: On-line Sentence Comprehension Task -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Task 1 results: Oral production of wh-matrix questions -- 5.2 Task 2 results: Oral production of relative clauses -- 5.3 Task 3 results: Written production of relative clauses -- 5.4 Task 4 results: Accuracy scores on the on-line sentence comprehension task -- 5.5 Task 4 results: Reaction times on the on-line sentence comprehension task -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Résumé -- Index.