Everything about Language transfer
Influence one language has on the acquisition or intelligibility of another
Language transfer is the application of linguistic features from one language to another by a bilingual or multilingual speaker and may occur across both languages in the acquisition of a simultaneous bilingual. It may also occur from a mature speaker's first language (L1) to a second language (L2) they are acquiring, or from an L2 back to the L1. Language transfer is most commonly discussed in the context of English language learning and teaching, but it can occur in any situation when someone does not have a native-level command of any target language, as when translating into a second language. Language transfer is also a common topic in bilingual child language acquisition as it occurs frequently in bilingual children especially when one language is dominant. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Language transferA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Transfer language selection for zero-shot cross-lingual abusive language detectionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Mundos en palabrasThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Cross-language transfer of phonological awareness.Cited 528 times
- Go sideways: Crosslinguistic influenceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Multi-competenceA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Synonym of language shift.
Noun The (correct or incorrect) application of linguistic features (grammar, vocabulary, etc.) from one language to another, such as false friends.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Cross-language transfer of phonological awareness.
LANGUAGE TRANSFER AND UNIVERSAL GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS
Transfer in bilingual first language acquisition
Feedback for Language Transfer Errors
Dominant language transfer in adult second language learners and heritage speakers
Lexical transfer and second language morphological development
Transfer as a second-language strategy
Transfer and language mode
🆕 Influential since 2022
Transfer language selection for zero-shot cross-lingual abusive language detection
Refined Knowledge Transfer for Language-Based Person Search
Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Cross-language font style transfer
Similarity in Language Transfer – Investigating Transfer of Light Verb Constructions From Dutch to German
📚 Books worth reading
Mundos en palabrasÁngeles Carreres · 2017
New Perspectives on Transfer in Second Language LearningLiming Yu, Terence Odlin · 2015- 📕Language and content-area instruction for secondary LEP students with limited formal schoolingLorraine Valdez Pierce · 1987
New Perspectives on Translanguaging and EducationBethAnne Paulsrud, Jenny Rosén · 2017
Language transfer in language learningSusan M. Gass, Larry Selinker · 1983- 📕Wissenstransfer und PopularisierungMariann Skog-Södersved, Margit Breckle · 2018
Ajax Construction KitMichael Morrison · 2007
Language transferTerence Odlin · 1989
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