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What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation
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[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 16:1] 2026. v, 100 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 27 January 2026
Published online on 27 January 2026
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Table of Contents
- What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variationCristina Flores & Neal Snape | pp. 1–25
- What returnee international adoptees may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variationMirjam Broersma | pp. 26–30
- The other side of the coin matters too: What changes in the former heritage language of returnees may reveal about the dynamics of bilingual language acquisitionAylin Coşkun Kunduz | pp. 31–35
- About the complexity of the study of complex realitiesBarbara Köpke | pp. 36–40
- Problematizing the notion of “stabilization”: From description to prediction in returnee researchMaki Kubota | pp. 41–45
- Who qualifies as ‘returnee’, and can one be truly cut off from a former societal language upon return?Tim Joris Laméris | pp. 46–50
- What can only returnees teach us about language?Polina Pleshak & Maria Polinsky | pp. 51–56
- Returnee bilingualism and the dynamics of heritage language attrition and re-stabilizationAnabela Rato | pp. 57–61
- Age effects in “returnee” bilingualism: Problematizing their conflation as prima facie evidence for linguistic maturationPatrick Rebuschat & Jason L. Rothman | pp. 62–67
- The other side of the coin: Linguistic complexity as a potential cause for selective reinforcement in the heritage language of returnee speakersEsther Rinke & Aldona Sopata | pp. 68–72
- A dynamic model of fluctuation and re‑stabilizationLiliana Sánchez & Michael T. Putnam | pp. 73–76
- Turning to returnees: Differential development or attrition?Elena Schmitt | pp. 77–81
- Emergentism meets attrition: Returnee children as a lens on lifespan language dynamicsHideyuki Taura | pp. 82–84
- Continuities and discontinuities in L2 exposure among returnees: How plausible is a clean break with English or German after return?Jeanine Treffers-Daller & Hadil Alraddadi | pp. 85–89
- International migration and linguistic vicissitudesVíctor Zúñiga | pp. 90–93
- What returnee bilinguals continue to teach us: Embracing a dynamic and linguistically grounded perspective on bilingual language developmentCristina Flores & Neal Snape | pp. 94–100
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