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Peer reviewedTomiyama, Machiko – Applied Linguistics, 2000
Examines the second stage of natural second language attrition in the first language environment observed in a Japanese male returnee child. The subject spent 7 years in the United States, was 8-years-old when he returned, and was highly proficient in English. The second stage is characterized by a period of change in syntax and morphology,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
