This study attempted to investigate the effect of bilingualism on pragmaticawareness and development among Iranian Turkish/Persian EFL learners. Data werecollected through a personal profile questionnaire with questions about theparticipants’ language background and a WDCT with 10 situations to determine theextent to which the bilinguals demonstrated their pragmatic awareness of requests.They w...

this study attempted to investigate the effect of bilingualism on pragmaticawareness and development among iranian turkish/persian efl learners. data werecollected through a personal profile questionnaire with questions about theparticipants’ language background and a wdct with 10 situations to determine theextent to which the bilinguals demonstrated their pragmatic awareness of requests.they w...

Third language (L3) acquisition differs from first language (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition. There are different views on whether L1 or L2 is of primary influence on L3 acquisition in terms of transfer. This study examines differences in the event-related brain potentials (ERP) response to agreement incongruencies between L1 Spanish speakers and L3 Spanish learners, comparing response...

The case study focuses on the acquisition of Russian derivational morphology in terms nouns by monolingual (Russian) and simultaneous bilingual (Russian German) children early age. results are based analysis representative natural longitudinal recordings transcribed stored CHAT format using CHILDES system. first patterns methods nominal word-formation along with morphemes used revealed. propert...

In this study, we investigated crosslinguistic influence (CLI) at developmental stages of third language (L3) acquisition English by Russian–Norwegian children (N = 31). We tested seven linguistic properties within three modules (morphology, syntax and syntax-semantics). compared the L3 learners to Norwegian 90) Russian 74) second (L2) English. predicted simultaneous facilitative non-facilitati...