This volume focuses on the psycholinguistic aspects of language transfer when three languages are in contact, and provides an overview of the state of the art in cross linguistic influence in third language acquisition. Language may indeed influence thought psychology frontiers. Cognitive processes in second language reading orthography, cognition, bilingualism. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition scott jarvis 20080303 a cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on. Pdf crosslinguistic differences in early semantic and.
Answers to the above questions are important for theoretical as well as practical reasons. A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work concerning crosslinguistic influence, or transfer, this book will become the authoritative account of. The implications of linguistic relativity for language. Language transfer is the application of linguistic features from one language to another by a bilingual or multilingual speaker. Crosslinguistic influence in language learning unep. Crosslinguistic transfer in the acquisition of compound. A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or language transfer, this book is an authoritative account of transfer in second language learning and its consequences for language and thought.
Language transfer also known as l1 interference, linguistic interference, and crosslinguistic influence is most commonly discussed in the context of english language learning and teaching, but it can occur in any situation when someone does not have a nativelevel command of a language, as when translating into a second language. Crosslinguistic perceptual differences emerge from the. We present a usagebased computational model of language acquisition which learns in a purely incremental fashion, through online processing based on chunking, and which offers broad, cross linguistic coverage while uniting key aspects of comprehension and production within a. Scott jarvis and aneta pavlenko 2008 new york and london.
Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition 1st. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition by scott jarvis and aneta pavlenko related. The recommendation of estrategies deserves special mention. Four cross linguistic experiments were conducted with native speakers of four languagesarabic, english, japanese, and spanish n 83. Subsequently, it presents a set of models and hypotheses as the main theoretical frameworks which are commonly drawn on to support, describe and give account of the related. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc. In cross linguistic influence in third language acquisition. The role of l2 proficiency and l2 exposure marieclaude tremblay university of ottawa abstract. Crosslinguistic influence and transfer of learning. A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work concerning crosslinguistic influence, or transfer, this book will become the authoritative account of transfer in second language learning and its consequences for language and thought.
Evidence for modularity from the study of bilingualism norbert francis northern arizona university over the past several years we have been examining a series of apparent tendencies and. Pdf bidirectional crosslinguistic influence in language learning. Crosslinguistic influence in bilingual acquisition. Cross linguistic influence, transfer and other kinds of language interaction. Bidirectional cross linguistic influence in event conceptualization. Language transfer may occur across both languages in the acquisition of a simultaneous bilingual, from a mature speakers first language l1 to a second language l2 they are acquiring, or from an l2 back to the l1. This influence can involve various aspects of language. Bilingual first language acquisition at the interface between syntax and pragmatics. Crosslinguistic issues and compatible strategies for. In this respect, crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition is the first general and comprehensive analysis of the crosslinguistic influence cli phenomenon that offers a rich panorama of studies on language use and change and in doing so brings some new methodological perspectives that could unify findings made in the fields of contact linguistics and second language acquisition.
A third critique states that the strong thesis of linguistic. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition kindle. In this respect, crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition is the first general and comprehensive analysis of the crosslinguistic influence cli phenomenon that offers a rich panorama of studies on language use and change and in doing so brings some new methodological perspectives that could unify findings made in the fields of. His work in these areas has appeared in a book, book chapters, and a. Crosslinguistic interactions from second language to first. Crosslinguistic influences in multilingual language. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition 1st edition sc. Crosslinguistic interactions in l2 word meaning inference.
Crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition. Crosslinguistic influence, transfer and other kinds of. May 22, 2012 the effect of linguistic distance, l2 status and age on crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition. Crosslinguistic influence in bilingual language acquisition. It covers transfer in both production and comprehension, and discusses the distinction between semantic and conceptual transfer, lateral transfer, and reverse. Crosslinguistic interactions in l2 word meaning inference in. Parasitic vocabulary acquisition, crosslinguistic influence, and lexical retrieval in multilinguals april 2015 bilingualism. This research in third language acquisition tla, an offshoot of sla that concentrates specifically on the acquisition of a subsequent language beyond the second, may enhance our understanding of cross linguistic influences in particular and acquisition processes in general. It consists of articles on various issues relating to the syntactic and lexical development of foreign language learners from different l1 backgrounds, in many cases. Cross linguistic influence in third language acquisition.
For example, for a native speaker of spanish who is learning english, cli may lead to spanishsounding pronunciation when speaking english e. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition by scott. L2 reading entails a complex cross linguistic interaction between l1 reading ability and l2 linguistic knowledge. It covers transfer in both production and comprehension, and discusses the distinction between semantic and conceptual transfer, lateral transfer, and reverse transfer. That is, linguistic embodiment is a mere reflection of embodied cognition. Expressions of path among japanese learners of english. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition 1st edition. Transfer in both production and comprehension is treated extensively, and new ideas such as the distinction between semantic and conceptual transfer, lateral transfer, and reverse transfer are given the attention they deserve. Crosslinguistic perceptual differences emerge from the lexicon. Less typically, it could also refer to an interaction between different dialects in the mind of a monolingual speaker. Crosslinguistic interactions in l2 word meaning inference in english as a foreign language keiko koda and ryan t.
Scott jarvis is currently associate professor of linguistics and chair of the department of linguistics at ohio university, where his main research interests include crosslinguistic influence, cognitive linguistics, and research methods related to the investigation of language proficiency and the measurement of lexical diversity. Crosslinguistic influence cli refers to the different ways in which one language can affect another within an individual speaker. An example of cli is the influence of korean on a korean native speaker who is learning japanese or french. The theme of this paper is that the language specific linguistic tuning of perception is fundamentally compatible with a language universal perceptual map for speech and that the perceptual map need not be altered at all to account for cross linguistic differences in. Interlingual identifications and learner perceptions. Crosslinguistic influence and transfer of learning springerlink. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition request pdf. Accelerated acquisition in englishspanish bilinguals. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition scott.
Crosslinguistic influence in the l3 acquisition of english adjective. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition taylor. Cross linguistic influence is an important and thriving area of research for language acquisition studies in various forms. Wordprocess, use a concordancer, manage files, use email, vle and the web. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Crosslinguistic transfer in the acquisition of compound words. We conclude that dual language experience changes the relationship between cognitive processes and language abilities but some cognitive processes such as procedural learning might be less modified by language experience than other cognitive processes such as processing speed. The pdf file you selected should load here, if your web browser has a pdf reader plugin installed for example, a recent. Jan 01, 2007 a cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or language transfer, this book is an authoritative account of transfer in second language learning and its consequences for language and thought. The implications of linguistic relativity for language learning.
Cross linguistic influence, cross linguistic priming and the nature of shared syntactic structures article accepted version serratrice, l. Crosslinguistic interaction, lexical representation, and. The phrase crosslinguistic influence cli is roughly synonymous with other terms, most notably language transfer and interference, in that all refer to the influence of one language upon another, most typically in cases of second language acquisition sla. Cross linguistic influence cli is typically defined as the influence that knowledge of one language has on an individuals learning or use of another language. This edited volume contains, in addition to an introduction, ten chapters. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition kindle edition. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition. The relative autonomy of central cognitive systems, that correspond to general cognition and conceptual structures cs, from the linguistic components of phonology. In fact, cross linguistic interference is commonly found in bilingual first language acquisition. On the direction of cross linguistic influence in the acquisition of object clitics in french and italian. This category refers to direct or indirect appeals to the interlocutor in order to get help to produce a specific term in english. Bidirectional crosslinguistic influence in event conceptualization. Crosslinguistic influence on brain activation during second. Crosslinguistic influence in language learning cambridge u.
Cross linguistic influence of first language writing systems on brain responses to second language word reading in late bilinguals. Crosslinguistic influences in second language acquisition. For this study, i will look at the relationship between language and thought in terms of linguistic embodiment and embodied cognition from a different viewpoint. Crosslinguistic influence, crosslinguistic priming and the. Crosslinguistic influence cli in a third language is one of the most recent topics to. The range of developmental deficits varies from very. It consists of articles on various issues relating to the syntactic and lexical development of foreign language learners from different l1 backgrounds, in many cases involving languages which are typologically distant from english, such as russian, croatian, greek and. Cli can be observed across subsystems of languages. Cross linguistic influence studies usually investigate how the bilinguals first language l1 influences the acquisition and use of their second language l2 within the l2 context. Cli can be observed across subsystems of languages includin. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition.
So when we consider whether linguistic relativity has an influence on second language learning, we are asking specifically about structural relativity, that is, whether general cognitive effects arising from first language structure are affecting second language. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition kindle edition by jarvis, scott, pavlenko, aneta. Pdf parasitic vocabulary acquisition, crosslinguistic. The results of a study investigating the effect of l2 proficiency and l2 exposure on cross linguistic influence from l1 english and l2 french on l3 german are reported in this paper. This volume depicts the phenomenon of cross linguistic influences in the specific context of multilingual language acquisition. Crosslinguistic interactions from second language to. It typically involves two languages that can affect one another in a bilingual speaker.
The research in this thesis was supported by a grant from the german academic exchange service. Crosslinguistic influence refers to the different ways in which one language can affect another within an individual speaker. Jun 21, 2019 cross linguistic influence on linguistic structures. Pdf crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition. The disorders typically produce impairments of personal,social,academic,oroccupationalfunctioning. Crosslinguistic influence and crosslinguistic interaction in. With respect to second language acquisition, the question arises as to whether conceptualization patterns can be restructured in accordance with the target language in order to gain nativelike proficiency. These terms continue to be used widely, but in each case the expression is really a cover term for a wide range of phenomena. However, it is commonly observed that people who speak different languages process speech sounds differently.
Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition by. Crosslinguistic interaction, lexical representation, and cognitive control in second language learners, bilinguals, and trilinguals gregory j. Linguistic influence the handbook of second language. Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition by scott jarvis. Cross linguistic transfer can be positive or negative. Crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition rero doc. First, an overview is given of current approaches to cross language interaction in bilinguals and trilinguals, drawing on research on speech production in bilinguals and models of lexical access. Both were investigated by reanalyzing data obtained from cross linguistic experiments and from l2 proficiency test batteries.
Crosslinguistic influence on brain activation during. The term crosslinguistic influence is used to describe the cognitive process of applying the knowledge of one language to that of another. This paper aims examines the influence of two previously known languages on third language oral production. Using a foreign language and living in a foreign culture. Scott jarvis is currently associate professor of linguistics in the department of linguistics at ohio university, where his main research interests include crosslinguistic influence, cognitive linguistics, and research methods related to the investigation of language proficiency and the measurement of lexical diversity. Experimental tasks involved a shortterm memory recall, b reading with sanskrit symbols, c lexical decisionmaking, and d reading with heterographic homophones. Crosslinguistic influence and crosslinguistic interaction in multilingual language learning published.
1440 524 223 712 421 1578 587 1162 1618 483 661 796 658 1222 359 260 507 514 1297 20 1340 1484 1567 107 1108 1390 683 241 930 1563 178 464 1687 933