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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Third Language Acquisition"”.
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Definiteness and Specificity in Second and Third Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese
… doctoral project addresses critical issues in third language (L3) acquisition, an area less studied than second language (L2) acquisition, by investigating the acquisition of (in)definiteness and (non-)specificity by L2 and L3 Mandarin speakers with prior knowledge of Cantonese and/or English. …
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Structural transfer in third language acquisition: the case of Lingala-French speakers acquiring English
… similarities and differences between the three languages. The research questions run as: 1. Which previously acquired language between the L1, L2, or both L1 & L2 overrides in L3 syntactic transfer? 2. Is the L2 the privileged source of syntactic transfer even when the L1 offers syntactic …
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Cross-linguistic transfer in third language acquisition: a comparative study of Mandarin L2 and Guangxi Cantonese L3 learners of English
… 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 translation. The data …
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Aptitude in L2 and L3 Learners of German
This study aims at contributing to the notoriously under-researched field of
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The effect of monolingualism, bilingualism and trilingualism on executive functioning in young and older adults
… on recent evidence suggesting that the more languages one manages the greater cognitive reserve, and that trilinguals undergo greater exercise in language control than bilinguals, this thesis investigated the effects of trilingualism and ageing on cognitive control, in young adults to older …
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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
Many studies have investigated third language acquisition (L3A) as an independent area of research. The core common interest of these 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 …