Over the last two decades, question of to which linguistic cues learners pay attention when they decode a new language has been subject controversy in field third (L3) acquisition. In this article, we present an artificial learning experiment that investigated how lexical and syntactic similarities between L3 preexisting grammars impact crosslinguistic influence at very beginning acquisition pr...

Epistemologically speaking, second language acquisition research (SLAR) might be reconsidered from a complex dynamical system view with interconnected aspects in the ecosystem of language acquisition. The present paper attempts to introduce the tenets of complex system theory and its application in SLAR. It has been suggested that the present dominant traditions in language acquisition research...

Language transfer helps in the acquisition of a second language (L2) when target L2 shares similarities with first (L1). We ask: Does proficiency an facilitate structurally similar L3? Or, does training any help L3 acquisition? investigated learners’ ability to reproduce rhythm novel L3, Indonesian, as function their exposure rhythm-similar (French) or rhythm-divergent (German). Twelve English-...

epistemologically speaking, second language acquisition research (slar) might be reconsidered from a complex dynamical system view with interconnected aspects in the ecosystem of language acquisition. the present paper attempts to introduce the tenets of complex system theory and its application in slar. it has been suggested that the present dominant traditions in language acquisition research...

As is well known, the study of L2 acquisition provides essential insights about the language learning process in general. Approaching language learning through the study of L1 acquisition alone yields an incomplete and potentially erroneous view of the language faculty. For example, L2 study critically informs such debates as the "maturation of linguistic principles" proposed for L1 learning. P...

although the majority of linguists believing in chomskyan revolution have no doubt about the presence of ug in ll acquisition, its availability in l2 acquisition _in general, and in adult l2 acquisition in particular, is controversial. on the one hand, there are proponents of the access to ug in l2 acquisition, lidia white for example, says: therange of option available to the second language l...