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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"third language (L3) 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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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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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as a third language
This dissertation investigates the acquisition of properties of the dative alternation in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) by L1 Spanish/L2 English and L1 English/L2 Spanish speakers who are learning Portuguese as a third language (L3). This work contributes to a better understanding of which factors …