An introduction to language attrition, providing an overview of linguistic and extralinguistic features involved and a description of research methods.

Thisvolume offers an in-depth description and discussion ofresearch design for a large-scale investigation of bilingual development. Itintroduces and justifies a range of theoretical and methodological innovations, discusses some of the problems that come with these and proposes practical solutions. The present volume introduces a research design intended to capture a wide range of linguistic data, elicited by means of behavioral tasks, neuroimageing data and free speech from both second language learners and first language attriters of two languages (Dutch and German) representing a wide...