UPDATE: James Kim's Off-Ramp piece received a 2013 Mark Twain Award by the Associated Press Television-Radio Association for best light feature. Congratulations, James! -- John Rabe I have always had ...

The present study reports on the evidence of first language (L1) attrition in a population that may appear to be the most resistant to L1 changes. Russian monolinguals (n = 3) and Russian-English ...

Vol. 24, No. 3, Special Issue: The acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch (July 2008), pp. 431-449 (19 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Ltd. This article presents a selective review of ...

If you define "knowledge" to be the deeply rooted fundamental structure of the language which allows you to produce and understand it in the first place, and "use" as any concrete instance of it, such ...

The first language a person learns is known as their native language and is usually a major part of their identity, shaping their earliest thoughts and connecting them with their culture and heritage.