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Rothman, Jason. 2015. Linguistic and cognitive motivations for the Typological Primacy Model (TPM) of third language (L3) transfer: Timing of acquisition and proficiency considered. Bilingualism 18 (2) : 179–190.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L3-acquisition | language proficiency | language transfer | multilingualism | typology

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explains the Typological Primacy Model (TPM; Rothman, 2013) for the prime phases of adult third language (L3) morphosyntactic transfer. The TPM asserts that structural proximity between the L3 and the L1 and/or L2 defines L3 transfer. L3 transfer might apply otherwise according to bilingual type (e.g. early vs. late) and bilingual ability level involved in the L3 process.