{"title":"Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of articles in L3 English by Danish-Russian bilingual\u0000 children","authors":"Tatiana Savelieva, Yulia Rodina","doi":"10.1075/jsls.21025.rod","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jsls.21025.rod","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Recent models of third language acquisition (L3A) propose that previous linguistic knowledge largely has a\u0000 facilitative effect. That is, either typological proximity or linguistic similarity will mostly lead to facilitation and the\u0000 patterns of non-facilitation will be rather subtle. The present study investigates whether Danish-Russian bilingual children may\u0000 overcome difficulties associated with knowing Russian, an article-less language, and benefit from knowing Danish when learning L3\u0000 English. To isolate the effects of each language we use a subtractive language groups design and compare article use in bilinguals\u0000 and two control groups (L1 Russian-L2 English and L1 Danish-L2 English children). The results of a forced choice elicitation task\u0000 show that the use of articles is near target-like in Danish-Russian and L1 Danish children and that bilinguals outperform L1\u0000 Russian children. A detailed investigation of article use, misuse and omission errors also suggests that non-facilitation from\u0000 Russian is virtually non-existent. Thus, young bilinguals can successfully transfer article semantics from Danish at early stages\u0000 of L3A.","PeriodicalId":29903,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Second Language Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46275997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}