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Introduction - Multilingualism

Language, Brain, and Cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2023

By
Jennifer Cabrelli ,
Adel Chaouch-Orozco ,
Jorge González Alonso ,
Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares ,
Eloi Puig-Mayenco  and
Jason Rothman
Edited by
Jennifer Cabrelli ,
Adel Chaouch-Orozco ,
Jorge González Alonso ,
Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares ,
Eloi Puig-Mayenco  and
Jason Rothman
Jennifer Cabrelli
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Chicago
Adel Chaouch-Orozco
Affiliation:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jorge González Alonso
Affiliation:
Universidad Nebrija, Spain and UiT, Arctic University of Norway
Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Eloi Puig-Mayenco
Affiliation:
King's College London
Jason Rothman
Affiliation:
UiT, Arctic University of Norway and Universidad Nebrija, Spain
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Summary

This chapter provides an introduction to the handbook. It succintly overviews the key questions in the field of L3/Ln acquisition and summarizes the scope of all the chapters included. The chapter ends by raising some outstanding questions that the field needs to address.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition , pp. 1 - 20
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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De Houwer, A. (2021). Bilingual Development in Childhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Romaine, S. (1995). Bilingualism. Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar
Rothman, J. (2010). On the Typological Economy of Syntactic Transfer: Word Order and Relative Clause High/Low Attachment Preference in L3 Brazilian Portuguese. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 48(2–3), 245–273.Google Scholar
Rothman, J., Cabrelli Amaro, J., & De Bot, K. (2013). Third Language Acquisition. In Herschensohn, J. & Young-Scholten, M. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics; pp. 372–393). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Rothman, J., González Alonso, J., & Puig-Mayenco, E. (2019). Third Language Acquisition and Linguistic Transfer (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar

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