Abstract

The author suggest sthe hypothesis that the «apitxat» orde voicing of the sibilants in the center of Valencia is due to the transfer of the voiceless phonemes, characteristic of the Aragonese and Castilian popula­tion living in Valencia during the Middle Ages, to Catalan.

Abstract

This article presents a descriptive study about the role of transfer in the second language acquisition of Catalan by immigrant learners. The analysis focuses on errors of verbal morphology produced by six learners of Catalan as a second language whose first languages were Arabic, [...]