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    "title": "Cross-Linguistic Similarities Aid Third Language Learning in Bilinguals",
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    "abstract": "Learning a new language involves significant vocabulary ac-quisition. Learners can accelerate this process by relying onwords with native-language overlap, such as cognates. Forbilingual third language learners, it is necessary to determinehow their two existing languages interact during novel lan-guage learning. A scaffolding account predicts transfer fromeither language for individual words, whereas an accumula-tion account predicts cumulative transfer from both languages.To compare these accounts, twenty English-German bilingualadults were taught an artificial language containing 48 novelwritten words that varied orthogonally in English and Germanwordlikeness (neighborhood size and orthotactic probability).Wordlikeness in each language improved word production ac-curacy, and similarity to one language provided the same bene-fit as dual-language overlap. In addition, participants’ memoryfor novel words was affected by the statistical distributions ofletters in the novel language. Results indicate that bilingualsutilize both languages during third language acquisition, sup-porting a scaffolding learning model.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Bilingualism; Language learning"
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    "section": "Papers",
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        {
            "first_name": "James",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bartolotti",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Northwestern University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Viorica",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Marian",
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            "institution": "Northwestern University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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