Table Of ContentTransfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development
Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity (HSLD)
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Linguistic Diversity Management in Linguistic Diversity Management in Urban Areas
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English and General Linguistics University of Hamburg
University of Hamburg
Volume 4
Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development
Edited by Hagen Peukert
Transfer Effects in Multilingual
Language Development
Edited by
Hagen Peukert
University of Hamburg
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements ix
Transfer effects in multilingual language development 1
Hagen Peukert
part 1. Psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer
The relationship between L3 transfer and structural similarity across
development: Raising across an experiencer in Brazilian Portuguese 21
Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro, João Felipe Amaro & Jason Rothman
Segmental targets versus lexical interference: Production of second-language
targets on first exposure and the result of minimal training 53
Susanne E. Carroll & Joseph W. Windsor
Foreign accent in heritage speakers of Turkish in Germany 87
Ilse Stangen, Tanja Kupisch, Anna Lia Proietti Ergün & Marina Zielke
part 2. Transfer in language learning and language contact
Lexical cross-linguistic influence in third language development 111
Camilla Bardel
Effects of cross-linguistic influence in word formation: A comparative
learner-corpus study of advanced interlanguage production 129
Marcus Callies
Transfer effects in the acquisition of English as an additional language
by bilingual children in Germany 147
Peter Siemund & Simone Lechner
Let’s fix it? Cross-linguistic influence in word order patterns of Russian heritage
speakers in Germany 161
Bernhard Brehmer & Irina Usanova
part 3. Transfer in applied linguistics
Assessing foreign language speech rhythm in multilingual learners:
An interdisciplinary approach 191
Christoph Gabriel, Johanna Stahnke & Jeanette Thulke
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Cross-linguistic transfer of academic language in multilingual adolescents 221
Joana Duarte
Bilingual resources and school context: Case studies from Germany and Turkey 249
Ulrich Mehlem & Yazgül Şimşek
part 4. Methodology on transfer: Issues and solutions
Do immigrant children profit from heritage language proficiencies? 277
Thorsten Klinger
Automated L1 identification in English learner essays and its implications
for language transfer 297
Egon Stemle & Alexander Onysko
The nature of the initial state of child L2 grammar: Contributions from
the syntax of clitics 323
Enkeleida Kapia
Subject Index 345
Name Index 349
Acknowledgements
The idea to publish this selection of papers arose in light of several discussions
at the interdisciplinary LiMA (Linguistic Diversity Management in Urban Areas)
research cluster. After three years of intensive research, language transfer phenom-
ena emerged as a major field of investigation to which all scientists from differ-
ent disciplines contributed interesting and relevant results to the ongoing debate
of language learning and multilingualism. Although the research questions and
goals differed widely in the interdisciplinary groups at the inception of the project,
it soon became apparent that we all seemed to converge on questions directed
towards language transfer. In fact, research on positive transfer effects crystallized
as a unifying element in the daily interdisciplinary work. It is this development
that lit the spark for not only documenting our results, but also putting them
directly into an international context with recognized scholars in this field. Thus,
we would like to contrast and to refine, to question and to supplement ongoing
scholarly work in language learning theory and practice.
The volume could not possibly have reached its high standards of quality with-
out the conscientious work of the reviewers. I like to thank in alphabetical order
Isabel Balteiro (Universidad de Alicante), Serhiy Bykh ( University of Tuebingen),
Gessica De Angelis (Trinity College Dublin), Elena Dieser ( University of Wuerz-
burg), Marion Döll (University of Education Upper Austria), Patrick Grommes
(University of Hamburg), Ulrike Gut (University of Muenster), Scott Jarvis (Ohio
University), Mary O’Brien (University of Calgary), Mihaela Pirvulescu (U niversity
of Toronto), Rebekah Rast (American University of Paris), Håkan Ringbom
(Akademi University) and Leslie Rutkowski (University of I ndiana) for their illu-
minating insights, clear suggestions and concise comments.
