Is acquiring a third language the same as acquiring a second? Are all instances of non-
native language acquisition simply one and the same? In this first book-length study of the …

Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …

The paper is aimed at investigating the sources of cross-linguistic influence in the third
language (L3) phonology, and, particularly, the impact of the second language (L2) on the …

This study examines the extent to which extra-linguistic factors such as language
dominance, order of acquisition and language of instruction are deterministic for multilingual …

The aim of this paper is to determine whether all languages in the linguistic repertoire of a
multilingual speaker manifest cross-linguistic influence (CLI) and establish the directions of …

This study examines five variables posited to drive (s) initial phonological transfer of (part of)
one system over another in an L3: language status (L1/L2), facilitation, global structural …

La historia del análisis de la entonación está constituida por dos tendencias diferentes: el
análisis de niveles (escuela norteamericana) y el análisis de configuraciones (escuela …

Level of proficiency (LoP), unlike other factors, such as L2 status or linguistic proximity, has
not been widely investigated in terms of third language acquisition (TLA). However, it is …

It was the linguist Scovel (1988) who identified the so-called 'Joseph Conrad phenomenon',
which claims that it is impossible for an adult learner of a foreign language to achieve a …

本文按照元音格局的理念和方法, 对第一外语为英语的中国学生在学习第二外语西班牙语时的元
音发音进行实验分析, 考察母语和第一外语对学习第二外语的影响. 研究发现 …