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Peer reviewedJordens, Peter; And Others – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
Researches the extent to which attrition is the reverse of the language acquisition process by studying the German case system. The Linguistic Hypothesis (based on the notion of regression) and the Cognitive Hypothesis (based on the assumption that there is a tendency to establish one-to-one correspondence between function and morphological case…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Cognitive Processes, German, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedYoshitomi, Asako – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1992
Presents a tentative cognitive-psychological model of language attrition, which draws on information from studies in second language attrition, neurobiology and psychology. Notes that this model is presented to demonstrate that a model based on consideration of the brain has the potential of providing a plausible account of the process of language…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Research
Nakuma, Constancio – IRAL, 1997
Discusses the measurability of linguistic and communicative competence in light of the performance/competence dichotomy, and proposes a method for measuring loss of communicative competence using spontaneous speech data. (11 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language), Grammar
