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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Cross-linguistic influence"”.
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as a third language
… better understanding of which factors determine cross-linguistic influence in the multilingual mind and what the role of previously acquired languages is in the acquisition of any language beyond the L2. The three languages of the multilingual participants have dative alternation, although it …
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The acquisition of French morpho-syntactic properties: Cross-linguistic Influence in the Learning of L3 French by Turkish/Spanish speakers who learned English as an L2
… studies has been to search for the source of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) among the previously acquired languages (i.e. L1 and L2) in the learning of an L3. In the domain of morpho-syntax, three competing hypotheses have emerged: one attributes a primary role to the L1 as the source of CLI …
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Acquisition of metaphorical expressions by Chinese learners of English
… from two major perspectives: (1) possible cross-linguistic influence in the process of acquisition and factors that could affect cross-linguistic influence; and (2) the organisation of learners’ bilingual lexicon and the status of metaphorical expressions in a bilingual lexicon. These two …
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The acquisition of motion event expressions by Uyghur-Chinese early successive bilinguals
… central issues of spatial language acquisition across childhood and of bilingual language development that have thus far been predominantly concerned with the domain of morphosyntax. As an attempt to redress the Eurocentricity characterising the current landscape of bilingualism research, the …
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The acquisition of bare nominals by three populations of Spanish-English bilingual adults
… study contributes to our understanding of cross-linguistic influence by studying three different groups of Spanish-English speakers’ knowledge of the distribution of definite articles in both of their languages using a battery of tests that require them to draw on different linguistic …
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Conceptualizing Variation in Greek Exodus and Postclassical Greek
… of bilingual cognitive processing. Often, linguistic research on the Greek of the Pentateuch has focused on isolated lexemes, resulting in an overemphasis on a ‘literal’ translation process representative of lexeme-for-lexeme matching. This scholarship stresses the text’s characteristic …
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Linguistic Transfer in Andean Spanish: Syntax or Pragmatics?
… studies have attributed this phenomenon to an influence of Quechua, where the object typically precedes the verb, but they do not discuss which linguistic properties have been transferred. The alternative orders are also possible in Standard Spanish, but in Standard Spanish fronted elements …
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How to Ask for a Favor: An Exploration of Speech Act Pragmatics in Heritage Russian
<p>Heritage language (HL) is a linguistic system that arises in the context of early childhood bilingualism, both sequential and simultaneous, when one of the languages is not fully acquired. The performance of speech acts in HLs is yet to be understood, and this dissertation is a first step in …
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Cross-linguistic transfer in third language acquisition: a comparative study of Mandarin L2 and Guangxi Cantonese L3 learners of English
… to learners’ English proficiency level and linguistic background in the written retell and translation tasks. The results show that there is only a significant difference in the category of additions between the different proficiency levels in the L3 group in the written retell task and a …
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Cross-Linguistic Influences on English Loanword Learnability in the Japanese Context
… measures. This finding implied that English linguistic gains of repeated exposure were most likely muted by entrenched L1 semantic knowledge. Overall, the results showed that loanwords are generally acquired with greater difficulty than non-loanwords and that they should not always be …
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Morphological Competence in English: Comparing Advanced L2 and L3 English Learners
… morphology, often with a goal to test cross-linguistic influence in L2 learning and processing, tends to focus on learners from typologically close first-language (L1) backgrounds (e.g., European languages, which are also rich in derivation, such as German); few studies, however, have …
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First and Second Generation New York City Bilinguals: What Is the Role of Input in Their Collocational Knowledge of English and Spanish?
… lexical patterns that are shared by a linguistic community. Examples of collocations typically used by speakers of English in the United States are <em>make a decision, take a step</em>, and <em>have a coffee</em>. Examples of collocations typically used by speakers of Spanish in Latin …