September 10, 2025LanguagesOpen Access

L1 Attrition vis-à-vis L2 Acquisition: Lexicon, Syntax–Pragmatics Interface, and Prosody in L1-English L2-Italian Late Bilinguals

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Experimental study examines l1 attrition and l2 acquisition in bilinguals, indicating domain-specific changes.

Both bilingual groups exhibited comparable levels of semantic interference in lexical retrieval, highlighting language processing complexity.
Residents in Italy displayed L1 attrition in real-time processing of anaphora at the syntax–pragmatics interface, unlike UK university students.
Both groups showed evidence of target-like L2 prosody, but prosodic attrition was noted only in long-term residents in Italy.
Findings support L1 attrition as a natural consequence of bilingualism that is influenced by experience and specific domains.

Zingaretti et al. (2025) studied this question.

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