Effects of cross-linguistic similarity on L1 and L2 transfer in Chinese-speaking English-Japanese learners'production of Japanese motion events
Adopting the comparison-induction methodological framework for transfer in multilingual production,this study addressed how cross-linguistic similarity impacts Chinese-speaking English-Japanese learners'L1(Chinese)and L2(English)transfers in their production of Japanese motion events.The following findings were yielded:First,positive and negative L1 transfer occurred more frequently in producing Japanese motion events than did positive and negative L2 transfer.Moreover,Chinese-Japanese cross-linguistic similarity did not significantly impact L1 transfer,but English-Japanese cross-linguistic similarity significantly affected L2 transfer.Second,Chinese-Japanese cross-linguistic similarity demonstrated significant effects on L1 transfer in the production of Japanese cause and manner motion events,whereas English-Japanese cross-linguistic similarity exerted significant effects on L2 transfer in producing Japanese manner and path motion events.Overall,these findings extend the Thinking for Speaking Hypothesis to third-language production and lend support to the extended versions of the L1 Factor Hypothesis,Scalpel Model,and Linguistic Proximity Model.
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