Commentary published in:
Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1] 2021
► pp. 89–95
Commentary

Cognitive states in third language acquisition and beyond

Theoretical and methodological paths forward

| Universitat Konstanz
| UiT the Arctic University of Norway
Article outline
  • On cognitive adaptation in additive multilingualism: Are L3 and beyond the same?
  • Underutilized methods: A psycholinguistic turn
  • References
Published online: 01 March 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.20080.per
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