The Perception of Lexical Similarities Between L2 English and L3 Swedish

The present study investigates lexical similarity perceptions by students of Swedish as a foreign language (L3) with a good yet non-native proficiency in English (L2). The general theoretical framework is provided by studies in transfer of learning and its specific instance, transfer in language acq...

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Main Author:	Utgof, Darja
Format:	Others
Language:	English
Published:	Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation 2008
Subjects:	master master's programme master's programme in language and culture language culture general linguistics linguistics foreign language acquisition similarity formal similarity semantic similarity functional similarity transfer transfer of learning language acquisition form form-based research crosslinguistic infuence one-year master english swedish lexical similarities false friends cognates deceptive cognates origin words of the same origin proto-germanic proto-indo-european competence performance comprehension corpus corpus-based data corpus-based research levenshtein distance objective similarity perceived similarity frequency prototype prototypicality proficiency context informed guess simchecker word recognition tachitoscopic experiments semantic correspondence similarity judgements eurocom surface transfer deep transfer lateral transfer Specific Languages Studier av enskilda språk General Language Studies and Linguistics Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik
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The Perception of Lexical Similarities Between L2 English and L3 Swedish

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