Some challenges of relating wholesale transfer approaches to L3 linguistic behavior
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This commentary addresses a keynote article by Schwartz and Sprouse, which examines the advantages of wholesale transfer approaches for third (L3) language acquisition research. We acknowledge the value of wholesale transfer as a hypothesis that makes strong and clear predictions about the properties of the early L3 grammar. But we raise two concerns about its empirical support. These concerns relate to the interpretation of null effects and to underlying assumptions about the relationship between linguistic behavior and grammatical knowledge, which impact the potential usefulness of differentiating between the concepts of “transfer” and “crosslinguistic influence”.
2021 ◽
Vol 18
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pp. 2604
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