Turtles all the way down

Micro-cues and piecemeal transfer in L3 phonology and syntax

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11655926
AutoresJohn Archibald (0000-0001-8500-0162, Victoria University, Canada, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen37
Número3
Páginas415-421
Fecha de publicación2020-07-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSecond language Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0267-6583 • E-ISSN: 1477-0326
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0267658320941036
OpenAlexW3039717457
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas17

There are several theories which tackle predicting the source of third language (L3) crosslinguistic influence. The two orthogonal questions that arise are which language is most likely to influence the L3 and whether the influence will be wholesale or piecemeal (property-by-property). To my mind, Westergaard’s Linguistic Proximity Model (LPM) is preferable to other theoretical models (say Rothman’s Typological Primacy Model) insofar as it is consistent with many aspects of L2/L3 phonological learnability that I am familiar with. Westergaard proposes a structure-based piecemeal approach to the explanation of third language acquisition (L3A). The model is driven by parsing and dictates that the first language (L1) or second language (L2) structure which is hypothesized to be most similar to the L3 structure will be the one to transfer

Grammar · Learnability · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Parsing · Phonology · Phrase structure rules · Property (philosophy · Syntax · Theoretical linguistics · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence