I know Spanish Which Romance language should I learn next L2 influence on L3 word recognition

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dc.contributor.authorDavid Beard
dc.contributor.authorEmily Neff
dc.contributor.authorAlly Bucher
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T16:20:12Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T16:20:12Z
dc.date.issued2019-03-25
dc.descriptionThe present study addresses historical and contemporary discussions on second and third language vocabulary development, specifically the effects of lexical similarity. Second language learners of Spanish aspiring to learn another romance language completed a translation recognition task with Spanish as the source language and Portuguese or Italian as the target language. Cognate and non-cognate targets were used. Reaction times were modeled as a function of language and word type using a linear mixed-effects model with subject and item serving as random effects. Results show that there is no significant processing advantage in recognizing words in Italian or Portuguese. With respect to word type, cognates were responded to significantly faster than non-cognates. These results speak to historical and contemporary accounts of lexical similarity in that Spanish and Italian are rated at 82% and Spanish and Portuguese at 89% [13]. Implications speak to both language researchers and educators.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/r3-wzxp-2s62
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectthird language acquisition
dc.subjectlexical similarity measures
dc.subjectcognate facilitation effect
dc.subjectsecond language acquisition
dc.subjectvocabulary
dc.titleI know Spanish Which Romance language should I learn next L2 influence on L3 word recognition
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
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