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A Systematic Review of Transfer Studies in Third Language Acquisition
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Puig-Mayenco, Eloi; González Alonso, Jorge; Rothman, Jason – Second Language Research, 2020
The present systematic review examines what factors determine when, how and to what extent previous linguistic experience (from the first language, second language or both languages) affects the initial stages and beyond of adult third language (L3) acquisition. In doing so, we address what a bird's eye view of the data tells us regarding…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Prior Learning, Native Language, Adults
The Role of L1 Phonology in L2 Morphological Production: L2 English Past Tense Production by L1 Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese Speakers
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Amaro, Jennifer Cabrelli; Campos-Dintrans, Gonzalo; Rothman, Jason – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
This study considers the role of L1 phonological influence in L2 English past tense morphology production by native speakers of Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. While these L1s share similar phonological restrictions on consonant cluster formation needed for English past tense morphology, differences arise in L1 syntax (only Mandarin lacks…
Descriptors: Role, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Islands and Objects in L2 Spanish: Do You Know the Learners Who Drop___?
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Rothman, Jason; Iverson, Michael – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
This study tests native Brazilian Portuguese (BP) speakers of second language (L2) Spanish in the domain of phonologically null object pronouns. This is a worthwhile first language (L1)-L2 pairing given that these languages are historically and typologically related and both seemingly allow for object drop. Nevertheless, the underlying syntax of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Spanish, Syntax
L3 Syntactic Transfer Selectivity and Typological Determinacy: The Typological Primacy Model
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Rothman, Jason – Second Language Research, 2011
The present article addresses the following question: what variables condition syntactic transfer? Evidence is provided in support of the position that third language (L3) transfer is selective, whereby, at least under certain conditions, it is driven by the typological proximity of the target L3 measured against the other previously acquired…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Poverty-of-the-Stimulus and SLA Epistemology: Considering L2 Knowledge of Aspectual Phrasal Semantics
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Rothman, Jason; Iverson, Michael – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2008
Coupling a review of previous studies on the acquisition of grammatical aspects undertaken from contrasting paradigmatic views of second language acquisition (SLA) with new experimental data from L2 Portuguese, the present study contributes to this specific literature as well as general debates in L2 epistemology. We tested 31 adult English…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Semantics, Syntax, Second Language Learning
On the Typological Economy of Syntactic Transfer: Word Order and Relative Clause High/Low Attachment Preference in L3 Brazilian Portuguese
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Rothman, Jason – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2010
One central question in the formal linguistic study of adult multilingual morphosyntax (i.e., L3/Ln acquisition) involves determining the role(s) the L1 and/or the L2 play(s) at the L3 initial state (e.g., Bardel & Falk, Second Language Research 23: 459-484, 2007; Falk & Bardel, Second Language Research: forthcoming; Flynn et al., The…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Language Research, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism