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Lost in Transmission: The role of attrition and input in heritage language development
Edited by Bernhard Brehmer and Jeanine Treffers-Daller
[Studies in Bilingualism 59] 2020
► pp. 1–14

Two sides of one coin?

The relevance of first language attrition for the acquisition of heritage languages

| University of Konstanz
| University of Reading
Published online: 29 May 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.59.int
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