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  2. Third language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Third language acquisition refers to multilinguals learning additional languages. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It contrasts with second language acquisition in the narrow sense, which is concerned with the acquisition of an additional language by (then) monolinguals .

  3. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included. number of words in a language. [1] [2] In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary.

  4. Multilingualism - Wikipedia

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    Receptive bilingualism in one language as exhibited by a speaker of another language, or even as exhibited by most speakers of that language, is not the same as mutual intelligibility of languages; the latter is a property of a pair of languages, namely a consequence of objectively high lexical and grammatical similarities between the languages ...

  5. Urdu Dictionary Board - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.

  6. Translingualism - Wikipedia

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    Translingualism is the phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language; a translingualism is an instance thereof. The word comes from trans-, meaning "across", and lingual, meaning "having to do with languages (tongues)"; thus, it means "across tongues", that is, "across languages".

  7. Complex dynamic systems theory - Wikipedia

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    Complex dynamic systems theory in the field of linguistics is a perspective and approach to the study of second, third and additional language acquisition. The general term complex dynamic systems theory was recommended by Kees de Bot to refer to both complexity theory and dynamic systems theory.

  8. Translanguaging - Wikipedia

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    Translanguaging is a concept in applied linguistics. It refers to different aspects of multilingualism.It can describe the way bilinguals and multilinguals use their linguistic resources to make sense of and interact with the world around them. [1]

  9. Crosslinguistic influence - Wikipedia

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    Acceleration is the acquisition of a feature in language A facilitating the acquisition of a feature in language B. [7] In a study of Dutch-English bilingual children, there were no instances of transfer across elements of morphology and syntactic development, indicating that the two languages developed separately from each other. [8]