Crosslinguistic Influence and Second Language Learning
The multilingual turn in second language acquisition (SLA) research signals an epistemic reorientation of the field (Ortega, 2014). It manifests the move away from the monolingual bias that measures learner language with the idealized competence of ...
Shan An
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Uyghur–Chinese Adult Bilinguals’ Construal of Voluntary Motion Events [PDF]
The study examined the implications of Talmy motion event typology and Slobin’s thinking-for-speaking hypothesis for the context of Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingualism. Uyghur and Chinese represent genetically distant languages (Turkic vs.
Alimujiang Tusun
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First Language Matters: Event-Related Potentials Show Crosslinguistic Influence on the Processing of Placement Verb Semantics [PDF]
Second language (L2) learners experience challenges when word meanings differ across L1 and L2, and often display crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in speech production. In contrast, studies of online comprehension show more mixed results.
Annika Andersson, Marianne Gullberg
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Examining the potential influence of crosslinguistic lexical similarity on word-choice transfer in L2 English [PDF]
We examined whether and how L1-L2 crosslinguistic formal lexical similarity influences L2 word choice. Our sample included two learner subcorpora, containing 8,500 and 6,390 English texts, written in an educational setting, by speakers of diverse L1s in ...
Itamar Shatz +2 more
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Sprachübergreifende Einflüsse aus der Perspektive der Lernenden
Nowadays the society is becoming more and more multilingual which is also the reason for researchers to focus more on multilingualism and interactions between languages.
Aleksandra Lipińska
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Memory systems modulate crosslinguistic influence on third language morphosyntactic acquisition. [PDF]
Previous studies on crosslinguistic influence (CLI) on third language (L3) morphosyntactic acquisition have provided support for competing theories about the source(s) of CLI.
Emily Shimeng Xu +3 more
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The role of Universal Grammar and crosslinguistic influence in the interpretation of recursive set-subset adjectives in adult Romanian L1-English L2 bilinguals [PDF]
Our research contributes to debates about the role of Universal Grammar constraints and crosslinguistic influence in sequential bilingual acquisition and use.
Adina Camelia Bleotu +4 more
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Crosslinguistic influence in the written English of Malay undergraduates
The purpose of this paper is to describe, analyse and explain the cross linguistic influence in the written English essays of Malay undergraduates to determine how similarities and differences between English and Malay can influence the acquisition of ...
Azirah Hashim
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The revised version of the Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) regards full-time equivalent (FTE), which involves the amount of L2 use during the length of residence (LOR) in an L2 setting, as the main factor in L2 speech acquisition.
Celia Gorba
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In this study, we aimed to deepen the understanding of the circumstances under which crosslinguistic influence occurs, by focusing on the acquisition of the Dutch plural by two- and three-year old children who attend bilingual Dutch-English daycare.
Darlene Keydeniers +3 more
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