Cross-Linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition: Psycholinguistic Perspectives(31 Bilingual Education & Bilingualism)

Third language acquisition is a common phenomenon, which presents some specific characteristics as compared to second language acquisition. This volume adopts a psycholinguistic approach in the study of cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition and focuses on the role of previously acquired languages and the conditions that determine their influence.

Table of Contents:
The effect of linguistic distance, L2 status and age on crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition, Jasone Cenoz (University of the Basque Country); roles of L1 and L2 in L3 production and acquisition, Bj rn Hammarberg (Stockholm University); interlanguage transfer and competing linguistic systems in the multilingual mind, Gessica De Angelis & Larry Selinker (University of London); lexical transfer in L3 production, H kan Ringbom ( bo Akademi University, Finland); activation or inhibition? the interaction of L1, L2 and L3 on the language mode continuum, Jean-Marc Dewaele (University of London); lexical retrieval in a third language, Peter Ecke (University of Arizona); plurilingual lexical organization, Anne Herwig (University of Dublin); learners of German as an L3 and their production of German prepositional verbs, Martha Gibson, Britta Hufeisen (The Technical University of Darmstadt) & Gary Libben (University of Alberta); too close for comfort? sociolinguistic transfer from Japanese into Korean as an L3, Robert F. Fouser (Kumamoto Gakuen University, Japan); "New Uses for Old Language" - crosslinguistic and crossgestural influence in the narratives of non-native speakers, Eric Kellerman (University of Nijmegen, Holland).

About the Author :
Jasone Cenoz is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). She co-edited the books Beyond Bilingualism and English in Europe (Multilingual Matters 1998, 2000) and has published in the fields of second/third language acquisition, multilingualism and interlanguage pragmatics. Britta Hufeisen is Director of the Language Resource Center at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and Adjunct Professor with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Edmonton/AB, Canada. She has published in the fields of third language acquisition and multilingualism. Another area of interest is the analysis of cultural-specificity in the development of foreign language learner narrative genres. Ulrike Jessner has published on psycholinguistic issues in the fields of first and second language acquisition, multilingualism and gender issues. Recently she has co-edited the book English in Europe and is co-author of A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism. She is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck.