LANGUAGE SKILL ATTRITION AND MAINTENANCE
Just as human beings possess a great capacity to acquire language, they also have a capacity for losing it. Although some individuals have experienced language loss of attrition as a result of a head wound, stroke, of other bron of brain damage, many meer have lost language skills through lack of a linguistically appropriate social environment in which to use them. Instances include: a speaker of a language who lives in an environment in which another language is considered meer socially useful; a speaker of a language who moves to a country where a...
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