Cross-Linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition: Psycholinguistic Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Jasone Cenoz (editor); Britta Hufeisen (editor); Ulrike Jessner (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 203
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume adopts a psycholinguistic approach in the study of cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition and focuses on the role of previously acquired languages and the conditions that determine their influence.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Effect of Linguistic Distance, L2 Status and Age on Cross-linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition
Chapter 2. Roles of L1 and L2 in L3 Production and Acquisition
Chapter 3. Interlanguage Transfer and Competing Linguistic Systems in the Multilingual Mind
Chapter 4. Lexical Transfer in L3 Production
Chapter 5. Activation or Inhibition? The Interaction of L1, L2 and L3 on the Language Mode Continuum
Chapter 6. Lexical Retrieval in a Third Language: Evidence from Errors and Tip-of-the-Tongue States
Chapter 7. Plurilingual Lexical Organisation: Evidence from Lexical Processing in L1–L2–L3–L4 Translation
Chapter 8. Learners of German as an L3 and their Production of German Prepositional Verbs
Chapter 9. Too Close for Comfort? Sociolinguistic Transfer from Japanese into Korean as an L>_3
Chapter 10. New Uses for Old Language: Cross-linguistic and Cross-gestural Influence in the Narratives of Non-Native Speakers
Index