An analysis of global and local crosslinguistic influence in L1 Mandarin-L2 English learners of L3 Spanish (Uma análise da influência interlinguística global e local em aprendizes de Espanhol como L3, falantes de mandarim como L1 e inglês como L2)

• Autor(a) principal: Patience, Matt
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Estudos da Língua(gem)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/5346
• topic: Aquisição de L3; Fonética L3; Mandarim; Espanhol; Influência interlinguística.; L3 acquisition; L3 phonetics; Mandarin; Spanish; crosslinguistic influence.; Adquisición de L3; Fonética L3; Mandarín; español; influencia interlingüística.

The present study investigated L3 phonetic crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in L1 Mandarin-L2 English-L3 Spanish speakers. The objective was to determine whether the L1 or the L2 was a stronger source of CLI in trilingual speakers of three typologically distinct languages, and to examine the extent to which L2 and L3 proficiency play a role. Two analyses were performed. In the global analysis, Spanish-speaking judges (N=22) listened to passages read by L1 Mandarin-L2 English-L3 Spanish speakers (N=17) with varying levels of L2 and L3 proficiency and attempted to identify the speakers’ native language. In the local analysis, the L3 production of the Spanish trill was examined, with the goal of determining whether the L1 or L2 was a more frequent source of transfer. The two analyses revealed that both the L1 and L2 were possible sources of transfer, although the L1 was a stronger source overall. L2 and L3 oral proficiency were not significant factors, revealing that other factors may be better predictors of the source of transfer. These findings are discussed in reference to their compatibility with the Typological Primacy Model and the L2 Status Factor Model.