Hi, I am looking for references concerned with language transfer or interference from foreign language to mother tongue.
We would like to test how sensitive are Croatian speakers fluent in German to German morphosyntactic features in Croatian (e. g. verb at the end of the sentence, use of indefinite articles etc.), but are not entirely sure how to design the psycholinguistic test. We believe the language transfer would influence the translation procedure into mother tongue.
Neurolinguistic studies are also very welcome.
One possibility is Terence Odlin's article "Language Transfer and Cross Linguistic Studies: Relativism, Universalism, and the Native Language" in The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics (ed. by Robert B. Kaplan; print version 2010; online version 2012).
Another possibility is Håkansson et al. (2002), "Transfer and typological proximity in the context of second language processing," Second Language Research 18,3 (2002); pp. 250–273 (attached).
A third option is Crosslinguistic influence in language and cognition by Scott Jarvis and Aneta Pavlenko (New York & London: Routledge) from 2008. I attach a review of this book by Anastassia Zabrodskaja in Sociolinguistic Studies (2012) 6/3: 603 - 607.
Generally speaking, different ways in which one language can impact another within an individual speaker is known as cross-linguistic influence (CLI) . As you have rightly noticed, such an influence can be bidirectional. However, in backward translation when L2 is rendered into L1, L2 can also influence the production of L1 in interesting ways. For further details, the following links can hopefully provide you with the related literature you are looking for.
Best of luck,
R. Biria
https://www.researchgate.net/.../308786715_L2_CROSS-LINGUISTIC_INFLUENCE_O...
https://www.springer.com/cda/content/...downloaddocument/9783642295560-c2.pdf?...
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/32bf/acdd711b4f71ae516dfa34f827b1ed01af55.pdf
Hi there
I recommend the theory that Vivian Cook discussed more than 15 years ago in the article: "Using L1 in the classroom, 2001". look for it in the web. it is very easy and understandable.
Also Rod Ellis' book " Second Language acquisition, 1997". He also speaks about the importance of Interlanguage stage that the learner acquires in the way to achieve mastery on L2.
There is another theory about the "situated learner". try to study the term from the web.
I couldn't remember the name of the author. and I'm relly sorry I don't have the links.
I recommend the borrowing technique of translation to transfer a text from foreign language to mother tongue.
Petar: For transfer of segmentals in a monolingual adult, see Sancier, M. L., & Fowler, C. A. (1997). Gestural drift in a bilingual speaker of Brazilian Portuguese and English. Journal of Phonetics, 25(4), 421-436. doi:10.1006/jpho.1997.0051
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095447097900516
For transfer of prosody in native bilingual children, see Cruz-Ferreira, M. (1999). Prosodic mixes: Strategies in multilingual language acquisition. International Journal of Bilingualism, 3(1), 1-21. doi:10.1177/13670069990030010101 .
URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13670069990030010101
All best for your research
Madalena
I cited Berman (1984) as well as Clahsen & Felser (2006) when developing my research paper on the role of perception models in the acquisition of language material. Those might equally be useful for your research: Have a look https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277323728_The_Role_of_Perception_Models_in_the_Acquisition_of_Language_Material
Article The Role of Perception Models in the Acquisition of Language Material
Hi Petar,
I think this article might be interesting for you. The article shows the influence of English L2 on the Brazilian Portuguese L1. In addition, it discusses interesting methodological issues to be able to find the effects of L2 on L1.
M. Leitão
You might think about trying some sort of reaction time measure, perhaps a self-paced reading task or something along these lines. Or perhaps some type of eye-tracking study? Neither of these are productive tasks, of course, but they help you to control variables and are well-established methodologies. If you want some ideas about how you can test the L1's influence on L2 processing using response time measures, you might have a look at some of the papers I have published on this. My collaborators and I have found a pretty consistent L1 influence for L2 collocational processing even for highly advanced speakers of English as an L2. Hope this help. Good luck!
George Yule in his book The Study of Language refers to transfer as positive and negative.
You could look at my paper on the acquisition of German as a third language by a speaker of Chinese.
Chapter "English and German are always fighting." Language assimilat...
Hi,
We have a paper on transfer in the semantic-lexical domain from L2-L1. The paper should have some useful references for you.
Best,
Anat
Article Bidirectional transfer: The effect of sharing a translation
Hi,
As already mentioned: Rod Ellis The study of second language acquisition but the 2nd edition of 2007's a real update.
Best,
I have looked at L2-L1 transfer in terms of verb argument structures using EEG. I also included behavioral data (sentence naturalness ratings). I'm attaching a talk I gave on this project last week at the International Symposium on Bilingualism. If you want more info on the methods, I can send you a copy of my dissertation.
A nice start for neurolinguistics would be
http://www.ucd.ie/artspgs/langimp/RelatorioEvelin2004.pdf
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