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Publication details [#60821]

Sánchez, Laura. 2015. L2 activation and blending in third language acquisition: Evidence of crosslinguistic influence from the L2 in a longitudinal study on the acquisition of L3 English. Bilingualism 18 (2) : 252–269.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

blending | crosslinguistic perspective | L2-acquisition | L3-acquisition | language transfer

Language as a subject

Catalan | English | German | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

A four-year longitudinal study explored the role of anterior linguistic knowledge on the written L3 production of 93 Spanish/Catalan child learners. It was found that the L2 background language (German) did activate in parallel with early L3 English during word construction efforts implying verbal forms.