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In this article, we will talk about language attrition, more precisely on Portuguese attrition for immigrants in the context of contact with French. First of all, we will briefly present our corpus constituted by video recordings of tasks proposed to Portuguese immigrants in France. The corpus is based on interaction tasks between two women, mother and daughter, who immigrated in 1970, and on oral tasks realised with one of them. Our publication deals with the analysis of the discourses permitting to identify the characteristics of L1 attrition according to the tasks. The two speakers, part of the same family, have idiolects which are interesting to analyse as they have common characteristics. Attrition is more a replacement than a complete loss. Being in francophone immersion and having few contacts with Portuguese language provoke the difficulty to access to the mother tongue. However, Portuguese doesn't vanish, only parts of the phrase will be replaced without incidence on inter-comprehension. The analysis will try to determine which linguistics aspects are the most affected. Indeed, not all structural aspects of the language are touched upon the same way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When we face a language contact, in immigration context, languages of a person do not keep their standard definitions (mother tongue, foreign language, etc.). In this article, we would like to analyse the impact of a language, considered at the beginning as a foreign language, on the mother tongue. In order to study the verbal communication of Portuguese speakers who immigrated in France, we constituted a corpus of two speakers doing oral tasks. Indeed, the first aim was to identify if there was a variation in the discourse according to the different tasks. We chose the following tasks: telling a memory, storytelling based on images, image description and free speech. Through the analysis of our corpus we try to determine the characteristics of the discourse of Portuguese speakers who immigrated in France more than thirty years ago. We focus here on the oral production of a sixty years old speaker, arrived in France in 1970, but also on her interactions with her mother who is eighty years old. The analysis of the verbal communication highlighted that two speakers (mother and daughter we spoke about above) have developed what we can call a common idiolect. This is what we would like to present in this article. We would like to characterize this idiolect and analyse it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]