Learners' implicit assumptions about syntactic frames in new L3 words: The role of cognates, typological proximity, and L2 status

Language Learning

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 153-202

  Hall, Christopher J ^a   Newbrand, Denise ^b   Ecke, Peter ^c   Sperr, Ulrike ^d   Marchand, Vanessa ^b   Hayes, Lisa ^e  

^a YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Arizona ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^e SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cognate vocabulary; Crosslinguistic influence; Foreign language effect; L2 effect; L3 acquisition; Multilingual lexicon; Parasitic Model; Psychotypology; Syntactic frame; Vocabulary learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849103591     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00503.x     Document Type: Article

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