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On the structural basis of non-redundant acquisition

Year: 2014

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This chapter has two goals: (a) to discuss the Spanish-Portuguese interface in current formal language acquisition research and (b) to highlight the contributions of this language pairing in the emerging field of formal third language (L3) acquisition. The authors discuss two L3 acquisition studies (Montrul, Dias, & Santos, 2011; Giancaspro, Halloran, & Iverson, in press) examining Differential Object Marking, a morphological case marker present in Spanish but not in Portuguese, arguing that the results show how data from Spanish-English bilinguals learning Brazilian Portuguese as an L3 illuminate the deterministic role of structural and typological similarity in linguistic transfer. The data provide supportive evidence for only one of three existing L3 transfer models: the Typological Proximity Model (Rothman, 2010, 2011, 2013).

Source: Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics

DOI: 10.1075/ihll.1.16rot

Authors: Jason Rothman, David Giancaspro, Becky Halloran

Institutions: University of Reading, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Indiana University

Language: English

Topic: EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2539011781

FWCI: 2.124

Cites: 48

Cited by: 10

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