The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition

Written by a team of leading scholars, this book examines how third languages are learned and processed in the brain.

Jennifer Cabrelli (Edited by), Adel Chaouch-Orozco (Edited by), Jorge González Alonso (Edited by), Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares (Edited by), Eloi Puig-Mayenco (Edited by), Jason Rothman (Edited by)

9781108832427, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 July 2023

820 pages
24.4 x 17 x 4.3 cm, 1.661 kg

In our increasingly multilingual modern world, understanding how languages beyond the first are acquired and processed at a brain level is essential to design evidence-based teaching, clinical interventions and language policy. Written by a team of world-leading experts in a wide range of disciplines within cognitive science, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the study of third (and more) language acquisition and processing. It features 30 approachable chapters covering topics such as multilingual language acquisition, education, language maintenance and language loss, multilingual code-switching, ageing in the multilingual brain, and many more. Each chapter provides an accessible overview of the state of the art in its topic, while offering comprehensive access to the specialized literature, through carefully curated citations. It also serves as a methodological resource for researchers in the field, offering chapters on methods such as case studies, corpora, artificial language systems or statistical modelling of multilingual data.

1. Multilingualism: language, brain and cognition Jennifer Cabrelli, Adel Chaouch-Orozco, Jorge González Alonso, Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares, Eloi Puig-Mayenco and Jason Rothman
Part I. Theoretical approaches to L3/Ln: 2. Generative approaches Jorge González Alonso
3. Usage-based approaches Alfonso Morales-Front and Cristina Sanz
4. Dynamic systems theory approaches Ulrike Jessner
5. Sociolinguistic approaches Melissa Moyer
Part II. L3/Ln across linguistic domains: 6. Exploring the acquisition of L3 phonology: challenges, new insights and future directions Magdalena Wrembel
7. Characteristics of the L3 lexicon Christina Lindqvist and Ylva Falk
8. Processing words in a multilingual lexicon Kristin Lemhöfer
9. Full transfer in L3/Ln morphosyntax: evidence from two clusters of studies Eloi Puig-Mayenco
10. Full transfer potential in L3/Ln acquisition: crosslinguistic influence as a property-by-property process Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina and Roumyana Slabakova
11. The acquisition and processing of pragmatics in multilinguals and third language learners Kyriakos Antoniou and Orestis Michaelides
Part III. Becoming and staying multilingual at different ages: 12. 3L1 acquisition during childhood Tanja Kupisch
13. Multilingualism and education in adulthood Carmen Pérez Vidal and Helena Roquet
14. Language attrition and L3/Ln Jennifer Cabrelli
15. Heritage speakers as L3 acquirers Anika Lloyd-Smith and Tanja Kupisch
16. The effects of environment change on third languages: the case of returnees Cristina Flores and Maki Kubota
Part IV. L3/Ln in action: 17. Theoretical linguistic approaches to multilingual code-switching Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto, Kate Bellamy and Felix Ameka
18. The psycholinguistics of multilingual code-switching Jorge Valdés Kroff, Souad Kheder, Aleksandra Tomic and Edith Kaan
19. L3/Ln acquisition in the classroom: how to connect theory and practice Tanja Angelovska and Angela Hahn
20. Diversity in multilingual learners: how variation in learners and contexts for learning shape the acquisition and processing of an L3/Ln Judith Kroll and Tamar Degani
Part V. L3/Ln and cognition: 21. Effects of multilingualism on executive functioning Ashley Chung-Fat-Yiim, Sayuri Hayakawa and Viorica Marian
22. Multilingualism and cognitive reserve Noelia Calvo and Ellen Bialystok
23. Structural and functional changes in the multilingual brain Jia'en Yee, Vincent DeLuca and Christos Pliatsikas
24. Mechanisms of cognitive ageing and multilingualism Katarina Antolovic, Eve Higby and Loraine Obler
25. Multilingualism and language impairment Mira Goral and Talita Fortunato-Tavares
Part VI. Research methods in L3/Ln: 26. Innovations and challenges in acquisition and processing methodologies for L3/Ln Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares, Adel Chaouch-Orozco and Jorge González Alonso
27. Corpus research Stefanie Wulff
28. Case study research in multilingual contexts Björn Hammarberg
29. Using artificial linguistic systems to study third language acquisition and processing Sarah Grey
30. Statistical modelling in L3/Ln acquisition Guilherme Duarte Garcia.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]