Grammatical gender presents persistent difficulty for adult learners of Spanish in L2 acquisition; however, there is a literature gap L3 acquisition gender, specifically typologically different languages. In this project, we investigate the agreement by Russian (L1)/Mandarin (L1)-English (L2) speakers (L3) and compare findings with English(L1) (L2). Studying these languages particularly interes...

Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Can learning additional languages affect what we perceive to be similar events? The current study explores the impact of a second language (L2) third (L3) on how motion is categorized in functional Cantonese–English–Japanese multilinguals. Specifically, it examines extent which L1 speakers Cantonese (equipollent-framed) with an L2-English (satelli...

The paper aims to investigate the sources of crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of voice onset time patterns in third language phonology. Thirty two learners of L3 French with L1 Polish and L2 English were recorded reading lists of words in carrier phrases in the three respective languages. The recordings were analyzed for the degree of aspiration of voiceless stops in stressed onset ...

Bilingualism is one of the phenomena that widespread in world. The article determines assimilation Kazakh-Russian bilingualism children's speech. In order to determine level mastering bilingualism, a sociolinguistic survey 2nd grade Kazakh and Russian language students was conducted. All all 31 pupils took part survey. There were 11 questions questionnaire. They asked cognitive thinking learnin...

The present study investigated the acquisition of verb movement in L3 French by L1 speakers Norwegian with English as their L2. To investigate impact previously learned languages acquisition, we looked at two sentence types lexical verbs where Norwegian, English, and differ systematic ways: a) non-subject initial declarative main clauses b) subject-initial a short sentence-medial adverbial. Stu...

During the first year of life, infants pass important milestones in language development. We review some of the experimental evidence concerning these milestones in the domains of speech perception, phonological development, word learning, morphosyntactic acquisition, and bilingualism, emphasizing their interactions. We discuss them in the context of their biological underpinnings, introducing ...

Widely hailed as an educational success story, Singapore, a multilingual island nation in Southeast Asia, embraces an officially bilingual education policy. English is the medium of all content-area education from the start of schooling, with students’ official “mother tongue” required as a single subject. Although called the student’s “mother tongue,” these languages may not be the student’s h...

The current study explores the potential influence of an L2 on the acquisition of L3, in the context of English speaking learners of Japanese (the L2) and Korean (the L3). As a mean to assess the degree of influence of the L1 accent and L2 accent in L3 production, an experiment involving the perceptual judgment of a foreign accent was developed. Two groups of native English speakers [(i) five w...