TY  - BOOK
AU  - Margit Waas
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Language Attrition Downunder
T2  - German Speakers in Australia
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1082713
N2  - Language Attrition Downunder investigates the loss of a first language in a second language environment. In the first large-scale study on German speakers in Sydney, Australia, permanent residents and naturalised citizens who arrived as adults were interviewed. The survey establishes that after an immigration and assimilation period of ten to twenty years, the speakers' first language was markedly impaired. In particular, pragmatic aspects of onomatopoeia, reflex responses and repartee had attrited in the first language.
LA  - English
ER  -