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25 - Innovations and Challenges in Acquisition and Processing Methodologies for L3/Ln

from Part VI - Research Methods in L3/Ln

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023

Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares ,

Adel Chaouch-Orozco and

Jorge González Alonso

Edited by

Jennifer Cabrelli ,

Adel Chaouch-Orozco ,

Jorge González Alonso ,

Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares ,

Eloi Puig-Mayenco and

Jason Rothman

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Jennifer Cabrelli: Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Chicago
Adel Chaouch-Orozco: Affiliation:
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jorge González Alonso: Affiliation:
Universidad Nebrija, Spain and UiT, Arctic University of Norway
Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares: Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Eloi Puig-Mayenco: Affiliation:
King's College London
Jason Rothman: Affiliation:
UiT, Arctic University of Norway and Universidad Nebrija, Spain

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The advent of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methodologies has provided new insights into theories of language acquisition. Sequential multilingualism is no exception, and some of the most recent work on the subject has incorporated a particular focus on language processing. This chapter surveys some of the work on the processing of lexical and morphosyntactic aspects of third or further languages, with different offline and online methodologies. We also discuss how, while increasingly sophisticated techniques and experimental designs have improved our understanding of third language acquisition and processing, simpler but clever designs can answer pressing questions in our theoretical debate. We provide examples of both sophistication and clever simplicity in experimental design, and argue that the field would benefit from incorporating a combination of both concepts into future work.

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