The acquisition of adverbs in child L3 French in Canada
Glossa, 2022 This paper1 focuses on the acquisition of adverbs in French L3 and aims to identify the possible role of transfer in this particular linguistic context. The data come from children born in Canada who speak Romanian as a heritage language and are exposed ...
Maria Petrescu +4 more
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LEMMATIC INFLUENCE ON VOCABULARY ACQUISITION AMONG L3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN TANZANIA
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021 This paper investigates cross-linguistic influence (CLI) on the acquisition of English vocabulary by third language (L3) learners in Tanzania. Specifically, the study aims to establish how lemmatic CLI from L1 and L2 influences L3 in a multilingual rural
Lydia Kaoo, Rose Acen Upor
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Gender Agreement in L3 Spanish Production among Speakers of Typologically Different Languages
Languages, 2023 Grammatical gender presents persistent difficulty for adult learners of Spanish in L2 acquisition; however, there is a literature gap in L3 acquisition of gender, specifically of typologically different languages.
Olga Tararova +3 more
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The Categorization of L3 Vowels Near First Exposure by Spanish-English Bilinguals
Languages, 2022 The present study examined the predictions the Perceptual Assimilation Model in the context of naïve bilingual speakers while also considering whether the predictions of third language (L3) models of morphosyntax could be extended to L3 phonology.
Kyle Parrish
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Mapping the research trends of third language acquisition: A bibliometric analysis based on Scopus
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 L3 acquisition is gaining prominence in the academic community. The cardinal aim of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of research on L3 acquisition. 425 documents from the Scopus database were analyzed with Bibliometrix.
Zhao Liu
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Persian and Arabic Language Students’ L3 Acquisition of English Plural Marking: Language of Instruction Matters for Cross-Linguistic Influence [PDF]
Journal of Language Horizons, 2022 This study aims at comparing the effects of order of acquisition (L1 vs. L2) and language of contact instruction on third language acquisition (L3), exploring whether the context of acquisition affects learners’ knowledge of the L3.
Fatemeh Khezri +3 more
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Acquisition of Object Pronouns in EFL in Germany by Heritage Speakers of Turkish
Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2021 L3 acquisition has begun to attract the attention of many scholars in recent years. Heritage contexts are especially fruitful areas to understand how linguistic and nonlinguistic mechanisms interact with one another.
Efeoglu Gulumser, Schroeder Christoph
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L3 acquisition: A focus on cognitive approaches [PDF]
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014 Interest in third language (L3) acquisition has increased exponentially in recent years, due to its potential to inform long-lasting debates in theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and psycholinguistics. From the very beginning, researchers investigating child and adult L3 acquisition have considered the many diverse cognitive factors that ...
García Mayo, María del Pilar +1 more
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The L3 Polish Lateral in Unbalanced Bilinguals: The Roles of L3 Proficiency and Background Languages
Languages, 2022 Previous research points to a major role of L3 proficiency in L3 acquisition whereas language dominance and cognate status in bilinguals remain under-researched.
Jolanta Sypiańska
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Object drop in L3 acquisition [PDF]
International Journal of Bilingualism, 2014 The topic of cross-linguistic differences regarding the overt or null expression of arguments has been considered both in first (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition. There is abundant literature on both subject and object drop with different language pairings but the issue has not been considered in third language (L3) acquisition.
Garcia Mayo, María del Pilar +1 more
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