AN OVERVIEW OF GENERATIVE THIRD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION RESEARCH
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Abstract
The goal of this paper is to provide a short state of the art review of third language (L3) acquisition research from a generative point of view . I present som e of the most important theoretical models of morphosyntactic transfer along with the results of exemplar studies that test them. R esearch in this field of study is most interested in tracing transfer, identifying its source(s) first language ( L1 and/or second language ( L2 and determining its nature facilitative or non facilitative in the process of a ttaining proficiency in L3 see Rothman et al. 2019). Experimental results indicate that both previously acquired languages (L1 and L2) can be transfer red in a facilitative and non facilitative manner , approving or contradicting some of the proposed models of transfer. I conclude that there is a need for more research, testing the models across different language combinations and thus providing answers t o the questions raised by th e field.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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