Incomplete L1 Acquisition in the Immigrant Situation

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Incomplete L1 Acquisition in the Immigrant Situation is written by Glenn S. Levine and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110925982 (ISBN 10) and 9783110925982 (ISBN 13).

This monograph establishes a theoretical model for the investigation of 'incomplete L1 acquisition' in the immigrant situation. The study focuses on the linguistic behaviour of elderly speakers who acquired Yiddish simultaneously with English and have not used the language since childhood. The central question is whether ungrammatical forms in the data can be traced to the attrition of forms once acquired or to the incomplete acquisition of those forms. With regard to Yiddish present perfect rules, results favor the latter explanation, indicating long-fossilized, divergent child language.