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Science: general issues --- Psychology --- bilingualism --- language acquisition --- L1 attrition --- Language impairment --- Dominance --- Dominance shift --- dominance operationalization --- proficiency --- experiential measures --- cross-linguistic influence

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When people attempt to learn a new language, the language(s) they already know can help but also hinder their understanding or production of new forms. This phenomenon, known as language transfer, is the focus of this book. The collection offers new theoretical perspectives, some in the empirical studies and some in other chapters, and consists of four sections considering lexical, syntactic, phonological and cognitive perspectives. The volume provides a wealth of studies on the influence of Chinese on the acquisition of English but also includes studies involving Finnish, French, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Spanish, Swedish and Tamil. It will be of great interest to researchers and students working in the areas of crosslinguistic influence in second language acquisition, language pedagogy and psycholinguistics.

Language transfer (Language learning) --- Second language acquisition. --- Bilingualism. --- CLI. --- Cross-linguistic influence. --- Interference. --- Language pedagogy. --- Language transfer. --- Psycholinguistics. --- SLA. --- Second language acquisition.

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This Special Issue includes fifteen original state-of-the-art research articles from leading scholars that examine cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech. These experimental studies contribute to the growing number of studies on multilingual phonetics and phonology by introducing novel empirical data collection techniques, sophisticated methodologies, and acoustic analyses, while also presenting findings that provide robust theoretical implications to a variety of subfields, such as L2 acquisition, L3 acquisition, laboratory phonology, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociophonetics, blingualism, and language contact. These studies in this book further elucidate the nature of phonetic interactions in the context of bilingualism and multilingualism and outline future directions in multilingual phonetics and phonology research.

Language --- second language acquisition --- phonology --- discrimination --- cross-linguistic assimilation --- obstruent --- affricate --- fricative --- dialect --- English --- Spanish --- L1 attrition --- speech --- foreign accent --- accent perception --- bilingual --- teacher --- bilingualism --- phonetics --- language mode --- cross-linguistic influence --- transfer --- voice onset time --- global accent rating --- American English --- Russian --- voicing --- classroom learning --- first language drift --- perceptual learning --- individual differences --- phonetic sensitivity --- crosslinguistic influence --- Korean --- laryngeal contrast --- vowel inventory --- heritage bilingualism --- early bilingualism --- speech production --- multilingualism --- third language acquisition --- speech perception --- rhotics --- final obstruent devoicing --- Korean Americans --- California Vowel Shift --- second language phonology --- immigrant minority speakers --- sound change --- Spanish-English bilinguals --- gender --- vowels --- vowel centralization --- vowel sequences --- sociophonetics --- competence --- fricative epithesis --- vowel devoicing --- center of gravity --- French --- acquisition --- agentivity --- directionality --- fricative (de)voicing --- Catalan–Spanish contact --- intonation --- language contact --- language attitudes --- social factors --- Basque --- Perceptual Assimilation Model --- second language speech learning --- English /r/ and /l/ --- Japanese --- English as a second language --- categorical perception --- compromise VOT --- voice timing --- performance mismatches --- dynamic phonetic interactions --- acoustic similarity --- perceptual similarity --- non-native discrimination --- non-native categorisation

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Focusing on French, this collection of articles spans different facets of second language acquisition research, including different areas of a learner’s language system in French such as the development of verbal, nominal, and adjectival morphology. Other articles explore input matters relating to the learner’s language exposure as well as the role of individual factors in the learner’s developmental trajectory. The studies presented offer insight into contemporary developments in relation to the investigation of both well-established and newer emerging themes and issues in second language acquisition research and showcase the contributions of French in such work. They draw on different approaches and methods to offer an exploration of contemporary areas of focus in French second language acquisition among learners of different source languages, at different levels of development, and in different learning contexts.

tense --- aspect --- mood --- modality --- L2 French --- Interface hypothesis --- longitudinal study --- study abroad --- proficiency --- self-perceived proficiency --- linguistic gains --- French --- L2 acquisition --- verb morphology --- subject–verb agreement --- number --- transfer --- cross-linguistic influence --- collocation --- frequency --- MI score --- Log Dice --- stay abroad --- instructional practices --- proficiency outcomes --- French as a second language --- CEFR --- DELF --- action-oriented instruction --- task-based language teaching --- aller + V --- SLA --- spatial reference --- discursive function --- French L2 acquisition --- addition --- scope particles --- German L1 --- syntactic embedding --- prosody --- discourse cohesion --- vocabulary depth --- L3 French --- vocabulary knowledge --- spelling --- form-meaning --- word parts --- migration --- adult SLA --- high performance --- individual factors --- input --- morphosyntax --- usage-based approaches --- motivation --- LOTEs --- French as a foreign language --- ideal self --- intervention --- noun phrase --- determiner system --- French L2 --- beginning stages in L2 --- ESF corpus --- Spanish L1 --- Moroccan Arabic L1 --- L2 learner productions --- Basic Variety --- learner varieties --- n/a --- subject-verb agreement