Contents

pp vii-x

List of contributors

pp xi-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

INTRODUCTION

pp 1-2

1 - Linguistic progression and regression: an introduction

pp 3-36

THE SOCIOCULTURAL SETTING

pp 37-38

2 - The role of pidgin and creole languages in language progression and regression

pp 39-67

3 - Structure and practice in language shift

pp 68-93

4 - Growing up monolingual in a multilingual community: how language socialization patterns are leading to language shift in Gapun (Papua New Guinea)

pp 94-121

5 - Language change in a creole continuum: decreolization?

pp 122-144

PSYCHO- AND NEUROLINGUISTIC ASPECTS

pp 145-146

6 - Neurolinguistic aspects of first language acquisition and loss

pp 147-177

7 - Neurolinguistic aspects of second language development and attrition

pp 178-195

8 - Second language acquisition as a function of age: research findings and methodological issues

pp 196-221

9 - Second language regression in Alzheimer's dementia

pp 222-242

THE LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE 1: DISCOURSE, GRAMMAR, AND LEXIS

pp 243-244

10 - Crosslinguistic perspectives on native language acquisition

pp 245-266

11 - Syntactic development in Danish L2

pp 267-288

12 - The weaker language in bilingual Swedish-French children

pp 289-308

13 - Four operating principles and input distribution as explanations for underdeveloped and mature morphological systems

pp 309-339

14 - Crosslinguistic perspectives on lexical organization and lexical progression

pp 340-383

15 - Attrition or expansion? Changes in the lexicon of Finnish and American adult bilinguals in Sweden

pp 384-412

THE LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE 2: PHONOLOGY

pp 413-414

16 - The development of phonological abilities

pp 415-438

17 - The course of development in second language phonology acquisition: a natural path or strategic choice?

pp 439-462

18 - Sociolinguistic factors in loss and acquisition of phonology

pp 463-478

Index

pp 479-487