Laura Domínguez and Roumyana Slabakova have been successful in securing an ESRC network grant (£30,000) as part of an international network of researchers led by Monika Schmid (Essex). This will fund a series of seminars on the topic of First Language Attrition – the process by which the first language of a speaker who uses another language predominantly (e.g. migrants) becomes compromised and shows signs of cross-linguistic interference. The grant will fund 9 seminars and conferences (from 2015-2017) which will take place in various universities in the UK, the Netherlands, and Turkey.