Full Transfer Potential in L3/L<i>n</i> Acquisition

Westergaard, Marit; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Rodina, Yulia; Slabakova, Roumyana

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“…A subtractive language group design (Westergaard et al 2023) was employed, with an experimental group consisting of 33 L1 Polish, L2, English and L3 Norwegian listeners and two control groups: 35 bilingual L1 Polish and L2 English listeners naïve with respect to Norwegian and 13 native Norwegian listeners with L2 English (all classroom setting learners). In an oddity categorial discrimination task 180 triads contained both Norwegian retroflexes (i.e., /ʈ ɖ ʂ ɭ ɳ/) and non-retroflexes (i.e., /t d s l n/) in inter-vocalic position.…”

Section: Parallel Sessions Multilingual Perception Of Retroflexesmentioning

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Accents 2023. Accent perception and production. 16th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English, Łódź, 30 Nov – 2 Dec, 2023. The Book of Abtracts

2023

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‘Accents’ is an annual conference organized by the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics in Institute of English Studies at University of Lódź, Poland. The first edition of ‘Accents’ conference took place in 2007 and is successfully continued since. It brings together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native accents of English approached from a variety of theoretical and/or practical perspectives. The key issues discussed each year include individual accent characteristics, the dynamism of accent usage, accent teaching and learning, and the methods and tools for accent studies. The leitmotif of Accents 2023 revolves around numerous accent varieties and their impact on perception and identity as well as native and non-native accent production, accent teaching/learning, perceptual training and its effectiveness in the language classroom and in the language laboratory.

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Section: Parallel Sessions Multilingual Perception Of Retroflexesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accents 2023. Accent perception and production. 16th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English, Łódź, 30 Nov – 2 Dec, 2023. The Book of Abtracts

2023

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“…Facilitative influence is driven by structural similarity, while non-facilitative influence takes place when learners misanalyse L3 input and erroneously assume that a given property is common for L3 and either or both previously acquired languages. The LPM allows for the so-called ‘hybrid transfer’, that refers to the combined influence on the same property from both L1 and L2 (see also Westergaard et al, submitted).…”

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Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?

Długosz

2022

Second Language Research

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Although previous research has observed a facilitative influence of the first language (L1) on the acquisition and processing of gender agreement in a second language (L2), particularly in language pairs with similar gender agreement marking, the question of whether knowledge of two languages with gender can confer an additional advantage for L3/Ln (third or additional language) learners has not yet been addressed. The present study aimed to fill this research gap by examining the processing of gender agreement in intermediate and advanced L3/Ln Swedish among two groups of Polish native speakers: 30 L2 English / L3 Swedish learners, and 30 L2 English / L3 German / L4 Swedish learners. Participants were tested by means of a speeded grammaticality judgment task, in which they judged the correctness of indefinite noun phrases that either agreed or did not agree in gender. They also completed an untimed gender assignment task to control for their lexical knowledge of gender. Accuracy and response time data were submitted to Generalized Linear Models. The analysis shows that L4 Swedish learners process noun phrases faster than L3 Swedish learners, but only at the intermediate proficiency level; however, the groups do not differ in their judgment accuracy. This advantage is interpreted in terms of a surface transfer of similar gender agreement marking, which helps the learners automatize gender agreement processes earlier, but does not increase their sensitivity to gender-agreement violations. Moreover, the results accord with previous L2 studies in showing that learners of Swedish as L3/Ln develop sensitivity to ungrammaticality with advancing proficiency and benefit substantially from their gender assignment knowledge in processing gender agreement. Crucially, the present study provides preliminary evidence of a multilingual advantage in processing morphosyntactic features in L3/Ln.

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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of articles in L3 English by Danish-Russian bilingual children

Savelieva

Rodina

2022

JSLS

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Recent models of third language acquisition (L3A) propose that previous linguistic knowledge largely has a facilitative effect. That is, either typological proximity or linguistic similarity will mostly lead to facilitation and the patterns of non-facilitation will be rather subtle. The present study investigates whether Danish-Russian bilingual children may overcome difficulties associated with knowing Russian, an article-less language, and benefit from knowing Danish when learning L3 English. To isolate the effects of each language we use a subtractive language groups design and compare article use in bilinguals and two control groups (L1 Russian-L2 English and L1 Danish-L2 English children). The results of a forced choice elicitation task show that the use of articles is near target-like in Danish-Russian and L1 Danish children and that bilinguals outperform L1 Russian children. A detailed investigation of article use, misuse and omission errors also suggests that non-facilitation from Russian is virtually non-existent. Thus, young bilinguals can successfully transfer article semantics from Danish at early stages of L3A.

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Full Transfer Potential in L3/Ln Acquisition

Cited by 13 publications

References 48 publications

Accents 2023. Accent perception and production. 16th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English, Łódź, 30 Nov – 2 Dec, 2023. The Book of Abtracts

Accents 2023. Accent perception and production. 16th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English, Łódź, 30 Nov – 2 Dec, 2023. The Book of Abtracts

Processing gender agreement in an additional language: The more languages the better?

Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of articles in L3 English by Danish-Russian bilingual children

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