Third Language Acquisition and Linguistic Transfer

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by  Jason Rothman, Jorge González Alonso, Eloi Puig-Mayenco

THIRD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LINGUISTIC
TRANSFER
Isacquiringathirdlanguagethesameasacquiringasecond?Areallinstances
ofnonnativelanguageacquisitionsimplyoneandthesame?Inthisfirstbook-
lengthstudyofthetopic,theauthorssystematicallywalkthereaderthrough
the evidence to answer these questions. They suggest that acquiring an
additional languagein bilinguals(ofalltypes)isuniqueandrevealsthings
aboutthelinksbetweenlanguageandmind,brainandcognition,whichare
otherwise impossible to appreciate. The patterns of linguistic transfer and
what motivates it when there are choices (as can only be seen from third
language acquisition onwards) underscore a key concept in linguistic and
psychological sciences: economy. Overviewing the subfields examining
multilingual acquisition and processing, this book offers an expanded sys-
tematic review of the field of multilingual morphosyntactic transfer and
providesrecommendationsforthefutureemergingfield.
jasonrothmanisProfessorofLinguisticsatUiTTheArcticUniversityof
NorwayandNebrijaUniversityinMadrid,Spain.
jorge gonza´lez alonso isaPostdoctoralResearcherinLinguisticsat
UiTTheArcticUniversityofNorway.
eloi puig-mayenco is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
UniversityofSouthampton,UnitedKingdom.
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CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS
GeneralEditors:p.austin,j.bresnan,b.comrie,s.crain,
w.dressler,c.j.ewen,r.lass,d.lightfoot,k.rice,i.roberts,
s.romaine,n.v.smith
Third Language Acquisition and Linguistic
Transfer
Published online by Cambridge University Press
Inthisseries
119. d.robertladd:IntonationalPhonology(SecondEdition)
120. leonardh.babby:TheSyntaxofArgumentStructure
121. b.elandresher:TheContrastiveHierarchyinPhonology
122. davidadger,danielharbourandlaurelj.watkins:Mirrorsand
Microparameters:PhraseStructurebeyondFreeWordOrder
123. niinaningzhang:CoordinationinSyntax
124. neilsmith:AcquiringPhonology
125. ninatopintzi:Onsets:SuprasegmentalandProsodicBehaviour
126. cedricboeckx,norberthornsteinandjaironunes:Controlas
Movement
127. michaelisrael:TheGrammarofPolarity:Pragmatics,Sensitivity,andtheLogic
ofScales
128. m.ritamanziniandleonardom.savoia:GrammaticalCategories:Variation
inRomanceLanguages
129. barbaracitko:SymmetryinSyntax:Merge,MoveandLabels
130. rachelwalker:VowelPatternsinLanguage
131. marydalrympleandirinanikolaeva:ObjectsandInformationStructure
132. jerroldm.sadock:TheModularArchitectureofGrammar
133. dunstanbrownandandrewhippisley:NetworkMorphology:ADefaults-
basedTheoryofWordStructure
134. betteloulos,corrienblom,geertbooij,marionelenbaasandans
vankemenade:MorphosyntacticChange:AComparativeStudyofParticlesand
Prefixes
135. stephencrain:TheEmergenceofMeaning
136. huberthaider:SymmetryBreakinginSyntax
137. jose´ a.camacho:NullSubjects
138. gregorystumpandraphaela.finkel:MorphologicalTypology:FromWord
toParadigm
139. brucetesar:Output-DrivenPhonology:TheoryandLearning
140. asieralca´zarandmariosaltarelli:TheSyntaxofImperatives
141. mishabecker:TheAcquisitionofSyntacticStructure:AnimacyandThematic
Alignment
142. martinawiltschko:TheUniversalStructureofCategories:TowardsaFormal
Typology
143. fahadrashedal-mutairi:TheMinimalistProgram:TheNatureand
PlausibilityofChomsky’sBiolinguistics
144. cedricboeckx:ElementarySyntacticStructures:ProspectsofaFeature-Free
Syntax
145. phoevospanagiotidis:CategorialFeatures:AGenerativeTheoryofWordClass
Categories
146. markbaker:Case:ItsPrinciplesandItsParameters
147. wm.g.bennett:ThePhonologyofConsonants:Dissimilation,Harmonyand
Correspondence
148. andreasims:InflectionalDefectiveness
149. gregorystump:InflectionalParadigms:ContentandFormattheSyntax-
MorphologyInterface
150. rochellelieber:EnglishNouns:TheEcologyofNominalization
151. johnbowers:DerivingSyntacticRelations
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152. anateresape´rez-leroux,mihaelapirvulescuandyvesroberge:
DirectObjectsandLanguageAcquisition
153. matthewbaerman,dunstanbrownandgrevilleg.corbett:
MorphologicalComplexity
154. marceldendikken:DependencyandDirectionality
155. lauriebauer:CompoundsandCompounding
156. klausj.kohler:CommunicativeFunctionsandLinguisticFormsinSpeech
Interaction
157. kurtgoblirsch:Gemination,Lenition,andVowelLengthening:OntheHistoryof
QuantityinGermanic
158. andrewradford:ColloquialEnglish:StructureandVariation
159. mariapolinsky:HeritageLanguagesandTheirSpeakers
160. egbertfortuinandgettygeerdink-verkoren:UniversalSemantic
Syntax:ASemiotacticApproach
161. andrewradford:RelativeClauses:StructureandVariationinEverydayEnglish
162. johnh.esling,scottrmoisik,allisonbennerandlisecrevier-
buchman:VoiceQuality:TheLaryngealArticulatorModel
163. jasonrothman,jorgegonza´lezalonsoandeloipuig-mayenco:
ThirdLanguageAcquisitionandLinguisticTransfer
Earlierissuesnotlistedarealsoavailable
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THIRD LANGUAGE
ACQUISITION AND
LINGUISTIC TRANSFER
JASON ROTHMAN
UiTTheArcticUniversityofNorway&NebrijaUniversity
JORGE GONZÁLEZ ALONSO
UiTTheArcticUniversityofNorway
ELOI PUIG-MAYENCO
UniversityofSouthampton
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THIRD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LINGUISTIC
TRANSFER
Isacquiringathirdlanguagethesameasacquiringasecond?Areallinstances
ofnonnativelanguageacquisitionsimplyoneandthesame?Inthisfirstbook-
lengthstudyofthetopic,theauthorssystematicallywalkthereaderthrough
the evidence to answer these questions. They suggest that acquiring an
additional languagein bilinguals(ofalltypes)isuniqueandrevealsthings
aboutthelinksbetweenlanguageandmind,brainandcognition,whichare
otherwise impossible to appreciate. The patterns of linguistic transfer and
what motivates it when there are choices (as can only be seen from third
language acquisition onwards) underscore a key concept in linguistic and
psychological sciences: economy. Overviewing the subfields examining
multilingual acquisition and processing, this book offers an expanded sys-
tematic review of the field of multilingual morphosyntactic transfer and
providesrecommendationsforthefutureemergingfield.
jasonrothmanisProfessorofLinguisticsatUiTTheArcticUniversityof
NorwayandNebrijaUniversityinMadrid,Spain.
jorge gonza´lez alonso isaPostdoctoralResearcherinLinguisticsat
UiTTheArcticUniversityofNorway.
eloi puig-mayenco is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
UniversityofSouthampton,UnitedKingdom.
Published online by Cambridge University Press
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS
GeneralEditors:p.austin,j.bresnan,b.comrie,s.crain,
w.dressler,c.j.ewen,r.lass,d.lightfoot,k.rice,i.roberts,
s.romaine,n.v.smith
Third Language Acquisition and Linguistic
Transfer
Published online by Cambridge University Press
Inthisseries
119. d.robertladd:IntonationalPhonology(SecondEdition)
120. leonardh.babby:TheSyntaxofArgumentStructure
121. b.elandresher:TheContrastiveHierarchyinPhonology
122. davidadger,danielharbourandlaurelj.watkins:Mirrorsand
Microparameters:PhraseStructurebeyondFreeWordOrder
123. niinaningzhang:CoordinationinSyntax
124. neilsmith:AcquiringPhonology
125. ninatopintzi:Onsets:SuprasegmentalandProsodicBehaviour
126. cedricboeckx,norberthornsteinandjaironunes:Controlas
Movement
127. michaelisrael:TheGrammarofPolarity:Pragmatics,Sensitivity,andtheLogic
ofScales
128. m.ritamanziniandleonardom.savoia:GrammaticalCategories:Variation
inRomanceLanguages
129. barbaracitko:SymmetryinSyntax:Merge,MoveandLabels
130. rachelwalker:VowelPatternsinLanguage
131. marydalrympleandirinanikolaeva:ObjectsandInformationStructure
132. jerroldm.sadock:TheModularArchitectureofGrammar
133. dunstanbrownandandrewhippisley:NetworkMorphology:ADefaults-
basedTheoryofWordStructure
134. betteloulos,corrienblom,geertbooij,marionelenbaasandans
vankemenade:MorphosyntacticChange:AComparativeStudyofParticlesand
Prefixes
135. stephencrain:TheEmergenceofMeaning
136. huberthaider:SymmetryBreakinginSyntax
137. jose´ a.camacho:NullSubjects
138. gregorystumpandraphaela.finkel:MorphologicalTypology:FromWord
toParadigm
139. brucetesar:Output-DrivenPhonology:TheoryandLearning
140. asieralca´zarandmariosaltarelli:TheSyntaxofImperatives
141. mishabecker:TheAcquisitionofSyntacticStructure:AnimacyandThematic
Alignment
142. martinawiltschko:TheUniversalStructureofCategories:TowardsaFormal
Typology
143. fahadrashedal-mutairi:TheMinimalistProgram:TheNatureand
PlausibilityofChomsky’sBiolinguistics
144. cedricboeckx:ElementarySyntacticStructures:ProspectsofaFeature-Free
Syntax
145. phoevospanagiotidis:CategorialFeatures:AGenerativeTheoryofWordClass
Categories
146. markbaker:Case:ItsPrinciplesandItsParameters
147. wm.g.bennett:ThePhonologyofConsonants:Dissimilation,Harmonyand
Correspondence
148. andreasims:InflectionalDefectiveness
149. gregorystump:InflectionalParadigms:ContentandFormattheSyntax-
MorphologyInterface
150. rochellelieber:EnglishNouns:TheEcologyofNominalization
151. johnbowers:DerivingSyntacticRelations
Published online by Cambridge University Press
152. anateresape´rez-leroux,mihaelapirvulescuandyvesroberge:
DirectObjectsandLanguageAcquisition
153. matthewbaerman,dunstanbrownandgrevilleg.corbett:
MorphologicalComplexity
154. marceldendikken:DependencyandDirectionality
155. lauriebauer:CompoundsandCompounding
156. klausj.kohler:CommunicativeFunctionsandLinguisticFormsinSpeech
Interaction
157. kurtgoblirsch:Gemination,Lenition,andVowelLengthening:OntheHistoryof
QuantityinGermanic
158. andrewradford:ColloquialEnglish:StructureandVariation
159. mariapolinsky:HeritageLanguagesandTheirSpeakers
160. egbertfortuinandgettygeerdink-verkoren:UniversalSemantic
Syntax:ASemiotacticApproach
161. andrewradford:RelativeClauses:StructureandVariationinEverydayEnglish
162. johnh.esling,scottrmoisik,allisonbennerandlisecrevier-
buchman:VoiceQuality:TheLaryngealArticulatorModel
163. jasonrothman,jorgegonza´lezalonsoandeloipuig-mayenco:
ThirdLanguageAcquisitionandLinguisticTransfer
Earlierissuesnotlistedarealsoavailable
Published online by Cambridge University Press