Crosslinguistic influence and crosslinguistic interaction in multilingual language learning. (2015 copyright 2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gessica De Angelis, Ulrike Jessner and Marijana Kresić.
• Editors: De Angelis, Gessica, 1965-; Jessner, Ulrike; Kresic, Marijana
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- Gessica De Angelis (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); -- Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck, Austria); Marijana Kresic (University of Zadar, Croatia) -- 2. Perceptual Training of Novel Speech Contrasts in L3 Acquisition: The Effect of Multilingual Benefit -- Divya Verma Gogoi, James D. Harnsberger and Caroline Wiltshire (University of Florida, USA) -- 3. The Lexicon-Syntax Interfacein 3L1 acquisition: An Experimental Investigation of the Unaccusative/Unergative Distinction -- Megan Devlin, Raffaella Folli and Christina Sevdali (University of Ulster, Ireland) -- 4. Can a Background Language Alter the Path of Acquisition of Verb Placement in a Multilingual Context? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study -- Laura Sánchez (University of Barcelona, Spain) -- 5. Item-related determinants of cognate guessing in multilinguals -- Jan Vanhove and Raphael Berthele (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) -- 6. Developing Cognitive Strategies through Pluralistic approaches -- Rebecca Dahm (Université de Limoges, France) -- 7. "If you know Amharic you can read this": Emergent literacy in multilingual pre-reading children -- Anat Stavans (Beit Berl College and Research Institute for Innovation in Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel) -- 8. Does German help speakers of Dutch to understand written and spoken Danish words? - The role of second language knowledge in decoding an unknown but related language -- Femke Swarte, Anja Schüppert and Charlotte Gooskens (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) -- 9. Is A2 in German better than B2 in French when reading Danish? The role of prior language knowledge when faced with an unknown language -- Karolina Mieszkowska and Agnieszka Otwinowska (University of Warsaw, Poland) -- 10. Do learners transfer from the language they perceive as most closely related to the L3? The role of psychotypology for lexical and grammatical cross-linguistic influence in French L3 -- Christina Lindqvist (Uppsala University, Sweden) -- 11. Epilogue -- De Angelis, Jessner, Kresic -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 404/.2; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Multilingualism -- Study and teaching; Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching; Second language acquisition -- Social aspects; Education, Bilingual -- Cross-cultural studies; Multicultural education -- Cross-cultural studies; Intercultural communication -- Cross-cultural studies; Language acquisition -- Cross-cultural studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Linguistics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474235860; 1474235867
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