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New Perspectives on Transfer in Second Language Learning
Edited by Liming Yu and Terence Odlin
Published by Multilingual Matters

When people attempt to learn a new language, the language(s) they already know can help but also hinder their understanding or production of new forms. This phenomenon, known as language transfer, is the focus of this book. The collection includes both theoretical analyses and work based on empirical observation and consists of four sections considering lexical, syntactic, phonological and cognitive perspectives. The volume provides a wealth of studies on the influence of Chinese on the acquisition of English but also includes studies involving Finnish, French, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Swedish, Spanish and Tamil. It will be of great interest to researchers working in the areas of crosslinguistic influence in second language acquisition, language pedagogy and psycholinguistics.

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