Transfer and typological proximity in the context of second language processing

By G. Håkansson, Manfred Pienemann, Susan Sayehli. 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Clitics and object expression in the L3 acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese: Structural similarity matters for transfer (2011, background): “Does it come from both languages (Flynn et al., 2004), or from ‘none’ (Håkansson et al., 2002)?”
Language contact and V3 in Germanic varieties new and old (2017, background): “Adding further support to this conclusion, Håkansson et al. (2002) show that even adult L1 speakers of Swedish (a V2 language) learning German (another V2 language) as an L2 also have difficulty in producing target-like V2.”
The role of the second language in third language acquisition: the case of Germanic syntax (2007, methodology): “A position against L2 syntactic transfer is taken by, for instance, Håkansson et al. (2002), who propose the Developmentally Moderated Transfer Hypothesis (henceforth DMTH) to account for transfer within Pienemann’s (1998) Processability Theory (henceforth PT).1 In the present study we argue…”
The study of the role of the background languages in third language acquisition. The state of the art (2010, background): “, Bouvy 2000) regard transfer from L2 as a matter of relexification only, and according to others (e.g., Dentler 2000; Håkansson et al. 2002) there is no transfer from L2 in the syntax.”
What variables condition syntactic transfer? A look at the L3 initial state (2010, background): “…research has effectively shown lexical transfer from the L2 to L3, it has been claimed that such transfer does not happen with L3 morphosyntax (for argumentation, see for example Håkansson et al., 2002; for discussion of the same study in the context of L3 acquisition, see Bardel and Falk, 2007).”
L3 syntactic transfer selectivity and typological determinacy: The typological primacy model (2011, background): “Since it is more or less uncontroversially accepted that transfer obtains at the onset of L3 acquisition (but see, for example, Håkansson et al., 2002), the question posed in generative L3 studies seeks to determine what the specific interplay between the two previously acquired linguistic systems…”
When Swedes begin to learn German: from V2 to V2 (2006, background): “These results suggest that, contra Håkansson et al. (2002), learners do transfer the property of V2 from their L1, and that L2 knowledge of a non-V2 language (English) may obscure this V2 transfer.”