Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition
Abstract This study investigates the role of lexical vs structural similarity in L3 acquisition. We designed a mini-artificial language learning task where the novel L3 was lexically based on Norwegian but included a property that was present in Russian and Greek yet absent in Norwegian (grammatical case).
Natalia Mitrofanova +2 more
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Voice onset time (VOT) of L3 Spanish /ptk/ by multilingual heritage speakers of Ukrainian and Polish
This study provides an acoustic analysis of voice onset time (VOT) of voiceless stops /ptk/ in Spanish, produced by heritage speakers (HSs) of Ukrainian and of Polish who are English-dominant and beginner or intermediate learners of Spanish as a third ...
Margaryta Bondarenko +2 more
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Translanguaging in L3 Spanish Classrooms: Practices and Attitudes
. Research into pedagogical translanguaging in second/foreign language education has largely been focused on the interplay between two languages, one of which is usually English.
Xiaozhou (Emily) Zhou +2 more
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L2 and L3 Syntactic Development in the Light of Generative Models: An Educational Perspective [PDF]
This study explored the syntactic acquisition by Persian monolingual and Kurdish-Persian bilingual learners of English as a second and third language and the effect of instruction on beginner learners' syntactic acquisition with reference to UG-based non-
Mohsen Kamangar +2 more
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Syntactic transfer in the initial stages of adult third language and fourth language acquisition
This paper elucidates the articulated proposals for the initial stages of adult third language (L3) syntactic transfer, addressing their application for L3 and the subsequent fourth language (L4) acquisition.
Mahbube Tavakol, Aliakbar Jabbari
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Second Language Transfer During Third Language Acquisition
A recent focus in the study of cross-linguistic influence is the role of transfer during third language acquisition. How do the learner’s first and second languages influence the acquisition of a third language?
Shirin Murphy
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A first recognition of the acquisition of articles in Spanish L3 by Italian students with English L2 [PDF]
The work focuses on the acquisition of articles in Spanish as L3 by university Italian beginners having a B2 level in English as L2. The latter answered a questionnaire involving definite and indefinite articles, so that for every question the ...
Musto, Salvatore
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CROSS-LINGUISTIC TRANSFER CLASSROOM L3 ACQUISITION IN UNIVERSITY SETTING
Introduction: the paper investigates cross-linguistic influences between the two previously learnt languages and their effects on classroom L3 acquisition.
M. Yu. Sokolova, E. V. Plisov
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Cross-linguistic influence in tense- aspect Spanish L3 acquisition
This article is a cross-sectional study that examined 30 Tunisian L1 Arabic- L2 French -L3 Spanish learners’ written narratives at B1 and C1 levels, as well as 15 Spanish native speakers. Its main purpose was to find out whether there is a L1 Arabic or a
Inès Fessi
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Aspect in the L2 and L3 Acquisition of Greek
This paper investigates different facets of the second language acquisition of Modern Greek by native speakers of Russian and Georgian, both adults and children, in the domain of aspectual marking in embedded clauses. The study investigates experimentally the inte-raction of lexical and grammatical aspect in those embedded sentential environments which
Karpava, S. +5 more
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