Blar i forfatter "Gorgone, Maria Paula"
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The acquisition of English as an L3 by Catalan/Spanish bilinguals. A study of crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition
Gorgone, Maria Paula (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-16)The present study focuses on the acquisition of English as a third language by Catalan/Spanish bilinguals. The aim is to find evidence of crosslinguistic influence from Catalan and/or Spanish in their L3 English by testing the properties of the Definiteness Effect (DE), according to which the copula cannot be followed by a definite DP in existential constructions in English and Spanish; VOS word ...