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Federico Gallo; Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto; Anastasia Malyshevskaya; Yury Shtyrov; Hamutal Kreiner; Mikhail Pokhoday; Anna Petrova; Andriy Myachykov – Language Learning, 2025
Native language (L1) attrition is ubiquitous in modern globalized society, but its cognitive/psycholinguistic mechanisms are poorly understood. We investigated lexico-semantic L1 attrition in L1 Russian immigrants in Israel, who predominantly use their second language (L2), Hebrew, in daily life. We included Russian monolinguals as a control…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Lexicology, Semantics, Native Language
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Kemp, Lisa S.; McDonald, Janet L. – Language Learning, 2021
Characteristics of vocabulary lists as well as study and test translation direction may affect the ease of learning second language (L2) vocabulary. We examined immediate and delayed test performance of first language (L1) English speakers learning a fixed set of L2 vocabulary placed on lists formed by crossing semantic relatedness (unrelated vs.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Semantics