French-German Late Bilingualism – An Attrition Study of lexical and semantic items

The present study examines the phenomenon of attrition of German adults living in an L2 environment. Recent studies have revealed the selective and ordered character of arising attrition. Our reference frame permits us to hypothesize a modular organization of languages (Fodor, on 1983; paradise, on 1997) with a hierarchic treatment ('data-/concept-driven': Durgunoglu & Roedinger, 1987). This hypothesis is notably based on a model of oral production (Levelt, on 1989), that has been later adapted to comprehension by De Bot (1992). The aims of our study are to differentiate the vulnerability of different linguistic…