On L3 acquisition and phonological permeability: A new test case for debates on the mental representation of non-native phonological systems
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Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro
Abstract
The goal of this article is to make an epistemological and theoretical contribution to the nascent field of third language (L3) acquisition and show how examining L3 development can offer a unique view into longstanding debates within L2 acquisition theory. We offer the Phonological Permeability Hypothesis (PPH), which maintains that examining the development of an L3/Ln phonological system and its effects on a previously acquired L2 phonological system can inform contemporary debates regarding the mental constitution of postcritical period adult phonological acquisition. We discuss the predictions and functional significance of the PPH for adult SLA and multilingualism studies, detailing a methodology that examines the effects of acquiring Brazilian Portuguese on the Spanish phonological systems learned before and after the so-called critical period (i.e., comparing simultaneous versus successive adult English-Spanish bilinguals learning Brazilian Portuguese as an L3).
© Walter de Gruyter
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Approaches to third language acquisition: Introduction
- The languages of the multilingual: Some conceptual and terminological issues
- Multilingualism and affordances: Variation in self-perceived communicative competence and communicative anxiety in French L1, L2, L3 and L4
- Inter- and intralingual lexical influences in advanced learners' French L3 oral production
- The use of prior linguistic knowledge in the early stages of L3 acquisition
- The study of the role of the background languages in third language acquisition. The state of the art
- Informing the age-of-acquisition debate: L3 as a litmus test
- On the typological economy of syntactic transfer: Word order and relative clause high/low attachment preference in L3 Brazilian Portuguese
- On L3 acquisition and phonological permeability: A new test case for debates on the mental representation of non-native phonological systems
