Cover not available

Reply published In: Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1] 2021
► pp. 116–129

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload PDF
authorization required
Response to the commentaries

Making models, making predictions

 | University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
 | Indiana University
Published online: 1 March 2021
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.00032.sch
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Opening summary
  • 3.Prediction vs. retrodiction
  • 4.Transfer vs. CLI
  • 5.Activation, inhibition, and transfer
  • 6.On Puig-Mayenco and Rothman (2020)
  • 7.On Bohnacker (2006)
  • 8.Our misunderstanding of two models
  • 9.On methodology
  • 10.Le dernier cri
  • 11.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
References (39)
References
Bohnacker, U. (2006). When Swedes begin to learn German: From V to V. Second Language Research, 221, 443–486. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Chomsky, N. (1965). Aspects of the theory of syntax. MIT Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1975). Reflections on language. Pantheon.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(1986). Knowledge of language. Praeger.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Falk, Y., & Bardel, C. (2021). Transfer patterns in L learning discussed. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Fernández-Berkes, E., & Flynn, S. (2021). Vindicating the need for a principled theory of language acquisition. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
García Mayo, M., & Rothman, J. (2012). L morphosyntax in the generative tradition. In J. Cabrelli Amaro, S. Flynn, & J. Rothman (Eds.), Third language acquisition in adulthood (pp. 9–32). John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Giancaspro, D., Halloran, B., & Iverson, M. (2015). Transfer at the initial stages of L Brazilian Portuguese: A look at three groups of English-Spanish bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 181, 191–207. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
González Alonso, J., Bañón, J., DeLuca, V., Miller, D., Soares, S., Puig-Mayenco, E., Slaats, S., & Rothman, J. (2020). Event related potentials at initial exposure in third language acquisition: Implications from an artificial mini-grammar study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 561, Article e100939. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
González Alonso, J., & Puig-Mayenco, E. (2021). You know more than you say: Methodological choices in L transfer research. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gunawardena, C. (2020). Cross-linguistic influence in French second and third language syntax: An investigation of L-English L-French and L-Sinhala L-English L-French speakers. [Doctoral dissertation]. University of York, England.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gutierrez-Mangado, M. J. (2021). Expanding the scope of L transfer study designs. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ionin, T., & Santos, H. S. (2021). Sources of knowledge in L acquisition. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Jaensch, C. (2012). Acquisition of L German: Do some learners have it easier? In J. Cabrelli Amaro, S. Flynn, & J. Rothman (Eds.), Third language acquisition in adulthood (pp. 165–192). John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
(2021). What about partial access to UG? Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Krashen, S. (1981). Second language acquisition and second language learning. Pergamon Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kutasi, T., Suffill, E., Gibb, C., Sorace, A., Pickering, M., & Branigan, H. (2018). Shared representation of passives across Scottish Gaelic and English: Evidence from structural priming. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 21, 1–8. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lardiere, D. (2009). Some thoughts on the contrastive analysis of features in second language acquisition. Second Language Research, 251, 173–227. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lewis, S., & Phillips, C. (2015). Aligning grammatical theories and language processing models. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 441, 27–46. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
McGill, J. (in preparation). Do words matter? How lexical input influences German/English bilinguals’ syntax in beginning Swedish [Doctoral dissertation]. Indiana University.
Puig-Mayenco, E., & Marsden, H. (2018). Polarity-item anything in L English: Where does transfer come from when the L is Catalan and the L is Spanish? Second Language Research, 341, 487–515. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Puig-Mayenco, E., & Rothman, J. (2020). Low proficiency does not mean ab initio: A methodological footnote for linguistic transfer studies. Language Acquisition, 271, 217–226. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Roberts, I. (2020). Parameter hierarchies and Universal Grammar. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Rothman, J. (2015). Linguistic and cognitive motivation for the Typological Primacy Model of third language (L) transfer: Considering the role of timing of acquisition and proficiency in the previous languages. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 181, 179–190. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Rothman, J., González Alonso, J., & Puig-Mayenco, E. (2019). Third language acquisition and linguistic transfer. Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Schwartz, B. D. (1993). On explicit and negative data effecting and affecting competence and linguistic behavior. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 151, 147–163. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Schwartz, B. D., & Sprouse, R. A. (2000). When syntactic theories evolve: Consequences for L acquisition research. In J. Archibald (Ed.), Second language acquisition and linguistic theory (pp. 156–186). Malden, MA: Blackwell.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Slabakova, R. (2021). Does Full Transfer endure in LA? Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Slabakova, R., & García Mayo, M. (2015). The L syntax-discourse interface. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 181, 208–226. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Westergaard, M. (2019). Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition. Second Language Research. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Westergaard, M., Mitrofanova, N., Mykhaylyk, R., & Rodina, Y. (2017). Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of a third language: The Linguistic Proximity Model. International Journal of Bilingualism, 211, 666–682. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cited by (2)

Cited by two other publications

Desmarais, Martin
2023. Comparing two notions of transfer in third language phonological acquisition. In L3 Development After the Initial State [Studies in Bilingualism, 65], ► pp. 76 ff. DOI logo
O’Grady, William
2022. A calculus for L1 transfer. In Second Language Acquisition Theory [Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 14], ► pp. 143 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 23 november 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue