Third Language Acquisition and Linguistic Transfer

Provides a comprehensive overview of third language acquisition (additive multilingualism) in adulthood, an increasingly important subfield of language acquisition.

List of contents

1. Setting the context; 2. Theoretical approaches to sequential multilingualism; 3. Multilingual lexis (acquisition and processing) and phonology; 4. Transfer in multilingual morphosyntax; 5. A review of published work; 6. Moving on and going forward in L3/Ln acquisition.

About the author

Jason Rothman is Professor of Linguistics at Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet and Universidad Nebrija in Madrid, Spain.Jorge González Alonso is a postdoctoral researcher in linguistics at Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet.Eloi Puig-Mayenco recently completed his Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics at the University of Reading.

Product details

• Authors: Jorge Gonzalez Alonso, Jorge González Alonso, Eloi Puig-Mayenco, Eloi (University of Reading) Puig-Mayenco, Jason Rothman, Jason Gonzalez Alonso Rothman, Rothman Jason
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781107082885
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08288-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Language acquisition, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism