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1. Introduction; Part I. Linguistic Aspects of Language Attrition: 2.What is attrition?; 3. Cross-linguistic influence and the mental lexicon; 4.Attrition in the mental lexicon; 5. Attrition and the structure of language;Part II. Extralinguistic Aspects of Language Attrition: 6. Personalbackground factors; 7. The role of L1 input and output; 8. Attitudes andidentities; Part III. Conducting Research on Language Attrition - PreliminaryConsiderations: 9. The test populations: participant characteristics andacquisition; 10. Types of linguistic knowledge; Part IV. Experimental Designsfor Attrition Research - The Language Attrition Test Battery: 11. Lexicaltasks; 12. Grammaticality judgment tasks; 13. Other grammatical tasks; 14.Free speech; Part V. Coding and Analysing the Data: 15. Transcribing andcoding free speech: the CHILDES project; 16. Coding and reportingexperimental data; 17. Interpreting your data: inferential statistics; 18.Conclusion.