The role of the second language in third language acquisition: The case of Germanic syntax

Second Language Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 459-484

  Bardel, Camilla ^a   Falk, Ylva ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acquisition of swedish and dutch; Germanic languages; L3 acquisition; Negation; Processability theory; Transfer from L2 to L3; Verb second

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649188795     PISSN: 02676583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267658307080557     Document Type: Article

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