ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1, we presented a taxonomy of the different types of transfer that have been investigated in previous research. One of the dimensions of that taxonomy deals with the distinction between linguistic and conceptual transfer, or the distinction between types of transfer that are examined primarily in relation to linguistic forms and structures versus types of transfer that are analyzed in relation to the mental concepts that underlie those forms and structures. The present chapter is devoted to the former perspective, and we deal with the latter perspective in the next two chapters. The purpose of the present chapter, then, is to review the findings of recent investigations into the ways in which L2 users’ production, perception, and comprehension of forms and structures in one language are affected by their linguistic knowledge of another language.
