Cross-language Influence and Language Co-activation in L3 word Acquisition: Evidence from Masked Priming Effect in Visual-Auditory Lexical Recognition Tasks Among Tibetan-Chinese-English Trilinguals

This study sets out to investigate CLI and language co-activation in L3 word acquisition among Tibetan-Chinese-English trilinguals whose three languages lack orthographically and phonologically similarities. We designed four experiments that used masked priming paradigm to test the priming effect from L1 to L3, L2 to L3, L3 to L1 and L3 to L2 respectively in audio-visually presented lexical decision tasks.