This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. Topics covered include theoretical implications, psycho- and neurolinguistic approaches, linguistic and extralinguistic factors, L2 attrition, and heritage languages.

1: Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke: Introduction Part I: Theoretical Implications of Language Attrition 2: Brian MacWhinney: Language attrition and the Competition Model 3: Michael T. Putnam, Silvia Perez-Cortes, and Liliana Sanchez: Language attrition and the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis 4: Gloria Chamorro and Antonella Sorace: The Interface Hypothesis as a framework for studying L1 attrition 5: Roumyana Slabakova: Implications of the Bottleneck Hypothesis for language attrition 6: Conny Opitz: A Complex Dynamic Systems perspective on personal background variables in L1 attrition Part II: Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Approaches to Language Attrition 7: Barbara Köpke & Merel Keijzer: Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic approaches to language attrition 8: Michael Sharwood Smith: Language attrition as a special case of processing change: A wider cognitive perspective 9: Jared A. Linck and Judith F. Kroll: Memory retrieval and language attrition: Language loss or manifestations of a dynamic system? 10: Paola E. Dussias, Jorge Valdés Kroff, Michael Johns, and Álvaro Villegas: How bilingualism affects syntactic processing in the native language: Evidence from eye movements 11: Elma Blom, Tessel Boersma, and Jan de Jong: First language attrition and Developmental Language Disorder 12: Eve Higby, Aviva Lerman, Marta Korytkowska, Taryn Malcolm, and Loraine K. Obler: Aging as a confound in language attrition research: Lexical retrieval, language use, and cognitive and neural changes 13: Melissa Barkat-Defradas, Frédérique Gayraud, Barbara Köpke, and Laurent Lefebvre: Linguistic regression in bilingual patients with Alzheimer's disease 14: Karsten Steinhauer and Kristina Kasparian: Electrophysiological approaches to L1 attrition 15: Eleonora Rossi, Yanina Prystauka, and Michele T. Diaz: Neuroimaging perspectives on L1 attrition and language change Part III: Linguistic factors in language attrition 16: Monika S. Schmid and Esther de Leeuw: Introduction to linguistic factors in language attrition 17: Charles B. Chang: Phonetic drift 18: Esther de Leeuw: Phonetic attrition 19: Chiara Celata: Phonological attrition 20: Elena Schmitt: Morphological attrition 21: Scott Jarvis: Lexical attrition 22: Ayşe Gürel: Null and overt pronouns in attrition Part IV: Extralinguistic Factors in Language Attrition 23: Monika S. Schmid and Mirela Cherciov: Introduction to extralinguistic factors in language attrition 24: Emanuel Bylund: Age effects in language attrition 25: Monika S. Schmid: The impact of frequency of use and length of residence on L1 attrition 26: Gülsen Yılmaz: L1 attrition, L2 development, and integration 27: Claudia Maria Riehl: Language contact and language attrition Part V: Second Language Attrition 28: Teodora H. Mehotcheva and Barbara Köpke: Introduction to L2 attrition 29: Teodora H. Mehotcheva and Kleopatra Mytara: Exploring the impact of extra-linguistic factors on L2/FL attrition 30: Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig and David Stringer: Syntax and phonology in L2 attrition: Modularity and resilience 31: Jenifer Larson-Hall: L2 lexical attrition 32: Hideyuki Taura: Attrition studies on Japanese returnees 33: Lee Osterhout, Ilona Pitkänen, and Judith McLaughlin: Event-related potentials as metrics of foreign-language learning and loss Part VI: Heritage Languages 34: Silvina Montrul and Maria Polinsky: Inroduction to heritage language development 35: Sharon Unsworth: Quantifying language experience in heritage language development 36: Fatih Bayram, Diego Pascual y Cabo, and Jason Rothman: Intra-generational attrition: Contributions to heritage speaker competence 37: Tanja Kupisch: 2L1 simultaneous bilinguals as heritage speakers 38: Lara J. Pierce, Fred Genesee, and Denise Klein: Language loss and language learning in internationally-adopted children: Evidence from behaviour and the brain 39: Janet S. Oh, Terry Kit-fong Au, Sun-Ah Jun, and Richard M. Lee: Childhood language memory in adult heritage language (re)learners 40: Cristina Flores: Language development in bilingual returnees Kees de Bot: Concluding remarks Monika S. Schmid: Annotated bibliography References Index

The first handbook dedicated to research into language attrition Adopts an interdisciplinary approach with insights from theoretical linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, and sociolinguistics Includes a research timeline and annotated bibliography for researchers who are new to the topic

Monika S. Schmid is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, having previously held positions at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Her research focuses on various aspects of first language attrition and has been published in journals such as Bilingualism: Language and Cognition and Applied Psycholinguistics. She is the author of several books including Language Attrition (CUP, 2011) and First Language Attrition, Use, and Maintenance: The Case of German Jews in Anglophone Countries (Benjamins, 2002). Barbara Köpke is Professor of Neuropsycholinguistics at the University of Toulouse 2 and head of the Octogone-Lordat Laboratory. Her research involves neuro- and psycholinguistic aspects of language processing in bilingual subjects with specific attention to 'extreme' situations such as L1 attrition, simultaneous interpreting, and aphasia. Her work has appeared in journals such as Language, Interaction and Acquisition and International Journal of Bilingualism, and she is the editor of a special issue of Journal of Neurolinguistics on first language attrition. Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke are co-editors, with Merel C. J. Keijzer and Susan Dostert, of Language Attrition: Theoretical Perspectives (Benjamins, 2007).

The first handbook dedicated to research into language attrition Adopts an interdisciplinary approach with insights from theoretical linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, and sociolinguistics Includes a research timeline and annotated bibliography for researchers who are new to the topic