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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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Guiora, Alexander Z.; Sagi, Abraham – Language Learning, 1978
Reports on an experiment conducted on 23 Israeli kindergarteners and 16 Israeli college students, which used a variant of a semantic differential test in order to test the hypothesis that young Israeli children, like adults, ascribe sexual meanings to words without regard to grammatical gender. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Grammar