Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. GENERAL PAPERS -- An Overview of European Research on Language Attrition -- Issues in the Analysis of Language Loss: Methodology of the Language Skills Attrition Project -- Points of Reference in First-Language Loss Research -- II. DIALECT LOSS -- The Selection of Linguistic Variables in Empirical Research on Variation and Change in Dialects -- Functional and Structural Aspects of Dialect Loss: A Research Plan and Some First Results -- III. FIRST-LANGUAGE LOSS -- Using the Present to Predict the Future in Language Contact: The Case of Immigrant Minority Languages in Sweden -- Language Loss and Symbolic Gain: The Meaning of Institutional Maintenance -- IV. SECOND- AND FOREIGN-LANGUAGE LOSS -- Foreign-Language Proficiency in the Elderly -- Forgetting Foreign-Language Vocabulary -- Regression in German Case Marking -- Problem Areas in the Study of Language Attrition -- The Attrition of English as a Second Language with Speakers of Hebrew -- The Attrition of French as a Foreign Language: Interim Results -- List of Contributors