Cogent Education, 2020 English and Chinese have typological differences in finiteness. English has morphological finite and nonfinite distinction, whereas Chinese has no morphological finiteness, and multiple verbs in a clause appear in the form of bare verbs with optional ...
Mengmeng Tang
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Language Aptitude and Crosslinguistic Influence in Initial L2 Learning
Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2020 Language-learning aptitude and crosslinguistic similarity between learners’ first language (L1) and the target second language (L2) are both known to facilitate successful L2 learning.
Lars Bokander
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Using corpora from Natural Language Processing for investigating crosslinguistic influence
AmpersandLanguage transfer or crosslinguistic influence (CLI), referring to the influence of an L1 on the learning of an L2, is a significant aspect of Second Language Acquisition (SLA).
Yitao Liu, Mark Dras
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On Convenience, Diversity, and Generalisability: A Commentary on Scaff et al. (2025). [PDF]
Dev SciDevelopmental Science, Volume 28, Issue 5, September 2025.
Kidd E, Garcia R.
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Lexical Crosslinguistic Influence in L3 Spanish by Tagalog–English Bilinguals
Languages, 2022 Crosslinguistic influence (CLI) has emerged as a topic of interest in the field of third language acquisition (L3A) due to the increasing focus on multilingual learners.
Janina Camille Vargas +1 more
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The universality of categories and meaning: a Coserian perspective [PDF]
, 2016 Studies in linguistic typology have challenged the idea that languages can be analyzed in terms of a set of preestablished universal categories.
Willems, Klaas
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French-English bilingual children’s motion event communication shows crosslinguistic influence in speech but not gesture [PDF]
, 2018 Bilinguals sometimes show crosslinguistic influence from one language to another while speaking (or gesturing). Adult bilinguals have also shown crosslinguistic influence in gestures as well as speech, suggesting an underlying conceptualization that is ...
Furman, Reyhan +2 more
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The Role of Task Complexity and Dominant Articulatory Routines in the Acquisition of L3 Spanish
Languages, 2022 Many studies in L3 phonetics and phonology have found that language dominance plays an influential role in determining the source of transfer. However, any effect of language dominance is likely dependent on many factors, including task complexity.
Matthew Patience, Wenqing Qian
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The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically [PDF]
, 2008 The causative/anticausative alternation has been the topic of much typological and theoretical discussion in the linguistic literature. This alternation is characterized by verbs with transitive and intransitive uses, such that the transitive use of a ...
Alexiadou, Artemis +2 more
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CROSSLINGUISTIC INFLUENCE OF AN L3 ON AN L2 IN THE PRODUCTIVE LANGUAGE SKILLS
Revista Lengua y Cultura, 2022 Multilingual speakers usually pass through a process of mixing the languages they are learning. For this reason, the purpose of this research was to detect the role of an L3 in the output of an L2. In order to find an answer, students who have English as
Abril Arlet Antunez Aguilar
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