%0 Journal Article
%T Efectos de la distancia tipol¨®gica entre las lenguas y del n¨²mero de lenguas conocidas en la adquisici¨®n de la sintaxis del espa£¿ol como lengua extranjera
%A Villanueva
%A Ana Mar¨ªa
%J N¨²cleo
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X this empirical study focuses on the cross-linguistic influence of previously known languages on the acquisition of the syntax of spanish as a foreign language. the central objective is to observe if acquired languages promote the acquisition of spanish syntax as a third or fourth language. the subjects in this study are french-speaking students of spanish in a university environment at the undergraduate level in an exchange program. the instrument used was a grammatical judgment test to control certain syntactic structures of three languages: french (students£¿ native language), english (foreign language) and spanish (target language). the analysis focuses on data from two study groups: those for whom spanish is the l3 and those for whom spanish is the l4. results showed a major transfer from french (l1) than english (l2) in both language groups due to typological similarities and both groups performed similarly; this is partially consistent with a similar study in the acquisition of french as a foreign language (villanueva, in press).
%K third language acquisition
%K cross-linguistic influence/transfer
%K french (l1)
%K english (l2)
%K spanish (l3).
%U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0798-97842011000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en