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The phonology of the initial state of L3 acquisition

2023
The present dissertation examined the initial state of L3 phonology in naive speakers of French and German who were Spanish-English bilinguals. The present work analyzed perception (Chapter 3), production (Chapter 4) and the perception production interface (Chapter 5).
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Transfer in L3 cognate language acquisition: The role of language background on instructed L3 Portuguese acquisition

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2019
AbstractResearch on L3 acquisition has highlighted the importance of cross-linguistic influence in adult language acquisition. Specifically, the Typological Primacy Model (TPM) for L3 acquisition predicts full transfer from the most structurally similar background language at the initial stages of acquisition.
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Microvariation and transfer in L2 and L3 acquisition

Second Language Research, 2020
This commentary discusses Westergaard’s (2021) keynote article, which presents a comprehensive model of first language (L1), second language (L2), and third language (L3) acquisition. The commentary presents evidence from a previous study of L3 learners that provides support for Westergaard’s property-by-property transfer proposal.
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L2 Transfer in l3 Acquisition and Use

Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen, 2000
This study investigates the effect of the language learner's 'psychotypology', i.e. per-ception of language distance, on the extent to which he or she transfers from a second language (L2) to a third language (L3). Three native speakers of Dutch with additional knowledge of English were interviewed in their L3 French.
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L3 acquisition of English attributive adjectives

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2016
Abstract This study examines three L3 transfer proposals, namely the L1 Factor (Hermas, 2010, 2014a, 2014b), the CEM (Flynn et al., 2004) and the TPM (Rothman, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015) as well as investigates the role of the language of dominance in L3 acquisition of English attributive adjectives. Three groups of bilinguals took part in
Nader Fallah, Ali Akbar Jabbari
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of adpositions in L3

International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
This study sets out to investigate possible effects of previously learned languages on the acquisition of English as a third language by examining six prepositions (in, on, at, behind, over, to) wh...
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The L3 fastbus data acquisition system

AIP Conference Proceedings, 1990
We present the overall structure of the FASTBUS data acquisition system of the L3 experiment at LEP. Particular emphasis is given to the description of the hardware configuration, the software to merge data from all subdetectors and the final event structure. The system was successfully used during the LEP physics runs and has proved its reliability.
B. Bertucci, S. Falciano, G. Medici, D. Linnhofer   +3 more
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Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2021
Tania Ionin, Hélade Scutti Santos
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The importance of individual data in L3 acquisition

Abstract We re-examine a recent contribution by Mitrofanova, Leivada, and Westergaard (2023) to the debate on wholesale vs. property-by-property transfer in L3 acquisition.
Hunter Brakovec, Mike Iverson, Jeanne McGill, Bonnie D. Schwartz, Rex A. Sprouse   +4 more
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of L3 variation

2022
Abstract This chapter addresses stylistic and obligatory variation in third language (L3) argument realization patterns. It focuses on the effects of formal second language (L2) learning experience, typological proximity, and five linguistic factors (discourse type ...
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