Approaches to third language acquisition: Introduction

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1. Approaches to third language acquisition: Introduction
2. The languages of the multilingual: Some conceptual and terminological issues
3. Multilingualism and affordances: Variation in self-perceived communicative competence and communicative anxiety in French L1, L2, L3 and L4
4. Inter- and intralingual lexical influences in advanced learners' French L3 oral production
5. The use of prior linguistic knowledge in the early stages of L3 acquisition
6. The study of the role of the background languages in third language acquisition. The state of the art
7. Informing the age-of-acquisition debate: L3 as a litmus test
8. On the typological economy of syntactic transfer: Word order and relative clause high/low attachment preference in L3 Brazilian Portuguese
9. On L3 acquisition and phonological permeability: A new test case for debates on the mental representation of non-native phonological systems