title: Neurolinguistic measures of typological effects in multilingual transfer: introducing an ERP methodology.
abstract: This article has two main objectives. First, we offer an introduction to the subfield of generative third language (L3) acquisition. Concerned primarily with modeling initial stages transfer of morphosyntax, one goal of this program is to show how initial stages L3 data make significant contributions toward a better understanding of how the mind represents language and how (cognitive) economy constrains acquisition processes more generally. Our second objective is to argue for and demonstrate how this subfield will benefit from a neuro/psycholinguistic methodological approach, such as event-related potential experiments, to complement the claims currently made on the basis of exclusively behavioral experiments.
authors: School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading Reading, UK ; Department of Language and Linguistics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway Tromso, Norway.
authors: Jason
authors: J
authors: Rothman
authors: Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.
authors: José
authors: J
authors: Alemán Bañón
authors: Department of English and German Philology, University of the Basque Country Vitoria, Spain.
authors: Jorge
authors: J
authors: González Alonso
keywords: agreement; artificial language; event-related potentials (ERPs); third language (L3) acquisition; transfer