Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar

✍ Scribed by Yan-kit Ingrid Leung (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 237
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents studies which approach the relatively new field of third language (L3) acquisition from the generative linguistic perspective. A total of nine contributions are included, reporting research on L3 involving different combinations of source/target languages and investigating various UG-related properties.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Acquisition of Spanish Middle and Impersonal Passive Constructions from SLA and TLA Perspectives
Chapter 2. Language Transfer in the Acquisition of the Semantic Contrast in L3 Spanish
Chapter 3. Multilingual Universal Grammar as the Norm
Chapter 4. UG and L3 Acquisition: New Insights and More Questions
Chapter 5. Transfer in L3 Acquisition: The Role of Typology
Chapter 6. L3 Enhanced Feature Sensitivity as a Result of Higher Profi ciency in the L2
Chapter 7. Third Language Acquisition of Norwegian Objects: Interlanguage Transfer or L1 Infl uence?
Chapter 8. Null Objects in L1 Thai–L2 English–L3 Chinese: An Empiricist Take on a Theoretical Problem
Chapter 9. The L3 Acquisition of Cantonese Refl exives
Appendix