attriter

English

Etymology

From attrite +‎ -er.

Noun

attriter (plural attriters)

1. One who, or that which, attrites.
2. (linguistics) One who has lost certain abilities in a language by learning and using a different language.

   Attriters often experience lexical access problems, i.e. a discrepancy between what they would like to say, their communicative intention, and what they still know how to say in their L1. (Monika S. Schmid (Q52147493) (2004) First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Methodological Issues, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 196)