L3 acquisition: a focus on cognitive approaches

García Mayo, M. D. P. and Gonzalez Alonso, J. (2015) L3 acquisition: a focus on cognitive approaches. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18 (2). pp. 127-129. ISSN 1469-1841 doi: 10.1017/S136672891400039X

Abstract/Summary

Interest in third language (L3) acquisition has increased exponentially in recent years, due to its potential to inform long-lasting debates in theoretical linguistics, language acquisition and psycholinguistics. Researchers investigating child and adult L3 acquisition have, from the very beginning, considered the many different cognitive factors that constrain and condition the initial state and development of newly acquired languages, and their models have duly evolved to incorporate insights from the most recent findings in psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics and cognitive psychology. The articles in this Special Issue of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, in dealing with issues such as age of acquisition, attrition, relearning, cognitive economy or the reliance on different memory systems –to name a few–, provide an accurate portrayal of current inquiry in the field, and are a particularly fine example of how instrumental research in language acquisition and other cognitive domains can be to one another.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/55752
Identification Number/DOI	10.1017/S136672891400039X
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	No Reading authors. Back catalogue items Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Clinical Language Sciences
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
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