What variables condition syntactic transfer? A look at the L3 initial state

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What is special about L3 processing?* (2013, background): “Rothman and Cabrelli Amaro (2010) also illustrated how the language combination of the learner can have a very strong inﬂuence on the (initial) success of the morphosyntax of L3 learners.”
A systematic review of transfer studies in third language acquisition (2018, methodology): “For example, two of the groups compared in Rothman and Cabrelli Amaro (2010) are particularly relevant: L1 English → L2 Spanish → L3 French and L1 English → L2 Spanish → L3 Italian.”