Crosslinguistic influence and crosslinguistic interaction in multilingual language learning /

"Which strategies do multilingual learners use when confronted with languages they don't yet know? Which factors are involved in activating prior linguistic knowledge in multilingual learning? This volume offers valuable insights into recent research in multilingualism, crosslinguistic inf...

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Group Author: De Angelis, Gessica, 1965; Jessner, Ulrike; Kresic, Marijana
Published: Bloomsbury Academic,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "Which strategies do multilingual learners use when confronted with languages they don't yet know? Which factors are involved in activating prior linguistic knowledge in multilingual learning? This volume offers valuable insights into recent research in multilingualism, crosslinguistic influence and crosslinguistic interaction. Experts in the field examine the role of background languages in multilingual learning. All the chapters point to the heart of the question of what the "multilingual mind" is. Does learning one language actually help you learn another, and if so, why?This volume looks
Carrier Form: xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781474235853 (hardback) :
1474235859 (hardback)
Index Number: P115
CLC: H09
Call Number: H09/C951-1
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- Gessica De Angelis (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); -- Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck, Austria); Marijana Kresic (University of Zadar, Croatia) -- 2. Perceptual Training of Novel Speech Contrasts in L3 Acquisition: The Effect of Multilingual Benefit -- Divya Verma Gogoi, James D. Harnsberger and Caroline Wiltshire (University of Florida, USA) -- 3. The Lexicon-Syntax Interfacein 3L1 acquisition: An Experimental Investigation of the Unaccusative/Unergative Distinction -- Megan Devlin, Raffaella Folli and Christina Sevdali (Univ