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Ortin, Ramses; Fernandez-Florez, Carmen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
Research on linguistic variation suggests that usage patterns are deeply embedded in native and non-native speakers' knowledge of grammar. This study explores the transfer of these variable sociolinguistic patterns at the initial stages of third language acquisition. We elicited narratives in Portuguese from two mirror-image groups of sequential…
Descriptors: Grammar, Transfer of Training, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning