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Burton, Graham – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2013
The focus of this research is on the nature of lexical cross-linguistic influence (CLI) between non-native languages. Using oral interviews with 157 L1 Italian high-school students studying English and German as non-native languages, the project investigated which kinds of lexis appear to be more susceptible to transfer from German to English and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Multilingualism, German
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Caruso, Marinella – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
This article reports on an investigation into the loss of morphology expressing temporality in the Italian of second generation Italo-Australians. The purpose of the study is to verify whether the loss of Italian tense and aspect morphology proceeds from marked to unmarked, where markedness is defined on the basis of formal and semantic criteria.…
Descriptors: Speech, Semantics, Verbs, Oral Language