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3 unusual facts about Language attrition


Second-language attrition

Weltens (1989), who studied foreign language learners, identifies an increase in reading and listening comprehension.

The first one, who designed it was Ribot in 1880, later on Freud took Ribot's idea up again and brought it in connection with aphasia.

Language attrition in general is concerned with what is lost (linguistic focus), how it is lost (psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic focus) and why it is lost (sociolinguistic, sociologistic and anthropologistic focus) (Hansen 1999).



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