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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Lexical transfer"”.
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The Potential Influence of Crosslinguistic Similarity on Lexical Transfer: Examining Vocabulary Use in L2 English
… language (L2) vocabulary, a phenomenon known as lexical transfer. Past research on this shows that learners’ L1 influences their L2 word choices, and that lexical similarity—which relates to cognancy—between L1 words and their L2 counterparts facilitates the processing of the L2 words, …
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L2 Representations and Processing of Chinese Nominal Phrases by Speakers of Classifier and Non-Classifier Languages
… outcomes are contingent on first language (L1) transfer, L2 input, and the interface. We explore the L2 representations of several properties related to Chinese nominal phrases: The distinction between classifiers and measure words, the incompatibility of numeral classifiers with the collective …
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The effects of learning lexical chunks on the English writing proficiency of Chinese-speaking tertiary students in Australia
… (SLA) have paid some attention to the role that lexical chunks can play in increasing second language (L2) learners’ writing success. Underpinning the current study is the concept of lexical chunks and lexical pedagogy. This thesis reports on a multi-case study of nine Chinese-speaking tertiary …
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Scandinavian place-names in Northern Britain as evidence for language contact and interaction
… contact phenomena including bilingualism, lexical borrowing and substratum transfer may have influenced the form and development of such name-types. I have concluded that differing types of linguistic contact, occurring both in primary and secondary settlement areas, may account for the …
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Cross-linguistic transfer in third language acquisition: a comparative study of Mandarin L2 and Guangxi Cantonese L3 learners of English
This thesis investigates the possible source of transfer in third language (L3) acquisition by comparing bilingual Guangxi Cantonese and Mandarin learners of English (L3 learners) and Mandarin learners of English (L2 learners) in two writing tasks: story retelling and Chinese-to-English …