Welcome to the Language Attrition Network Page!
Here you will find the information about our monthly online meetings for discussing a paper, a project, or some results. Would you like to present? Send us an e-mail! Contact us through e-mail: attrition.network@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/language.attrition
Meetings in 2025-2026:
Meetings are always Online (Microsoft Teams)
| October 2025, Thursday 23rd at 14:00 CET | Cross-linguistic influence of Heritage language: A Literature Review by Abdulkadir Şenel (Gaziantep University) |
| November 2025, Monday 17th at 14:00 CET | How literacy shapes grammar and higher-order language skills by Tan Gedik (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg ) |
| December 2025, Thursday 11th at 14:00 CET | First Language Attrition and Second Language Acquisition of the Geminate-singleton Contrast by Budur Alqarni (University of York) |
| January 2026, Thursday 22nd January at 12:00 CET | L1 Russian maintenance in Koryo Saram (KS) returnee children by Aisara Nauryzbayeva (South Corea) |
| February 2026 | NO MEETING |
| March 2026, Tuesday 3rd at 14:00 CET | Revitalizing linguistic identity: the case of Cypriot by Manuela Vida-Mannl (TU Dortmund University) & Antri Kanikli (UCLAN Cyprus) |
| April 2026, 22nd at 15:00 CET | TBA by Kelly Kendro |
| May 2026, TBA | |
| June 2026, TBA | |
PAST MEETINGS
| January, 23rd at 14:00 CET | Effective Language Learning Strategies of FL American Learners of Tagalog and Technology Tools in Reducing the Problem of Language Attrition by Rhodalyne Gallo-Crail (Northern Illinois University) |
| February, 24th at 14:00 CET | Is first language attrition possible without second language knowledge? Dr. Liubov Baladzhaeva and Prof. Batia Laufer (Haifa University) |
| March, 27th at 14:00 CET | Language development in Portuguese and English multilingual immigrants in, Switzerland: bridging sociolinguistic narratives and psycholinguistic models of attrition. Beatriz Duarte Gonçalves Ventura de Paula Wirth (Université de Lausanne) |
| April, 22nd at 14:00 CET | CANCELLED |
| May, 30th at 14:00 CET | Dr. Concepción Soto (University of Northwestern University, U.S.A.) |
| June, 26th at 14:00 CET | Cross-linguistic influences and L1 attrition, focusing on the impact of prolonged L2 (English) exposure on L1 (Chinese) reading behaviors. Dr Celia Shiyu He (University of Bristol) |
| December, Wednesday 18th at 16:00 CET | The Role of Linguistic Distance in First Language Attrition by Parastoo Kouhestani (University of Tromsø, Norway) |
| November, Monday 25th at 16:00 CET (15:00 UK time) | Language Attrition in Immigrants by Sepideh Javdani Esfahani (TU Chemnitz University, Germany) |
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PAST MEETINGS
This Autumn 2021 we are beginning with online reading groups with the following schedule:
| 22 October 13:00 BST | First Language Attrition as a Function of Age at Onset of Bilingualism: First Language Attainment of Turkish–English Bilinguals in the United Kingdom | Karayayla and Schmid, 2019 |
| 5 November 13:00 GMT | A model for L1 grammatical attrition | Hicks & Domínguez, 2020 |
| 19 November 13:00 GMT | Language attrition and the Competition Model | MacWhinney, 2019 |
| 3 December 13:00GMT | Attrition and Reactivation of a Childhood Language: The Case of Returnee Heritage Speakers | Cristina Flores, 2019 |
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