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Coñécese tamén como adquisición multilingüe e adquisición múltiple de linguas.
Área de estudo que se ocupa da adquisición dunha terceira lingua ou lingua adicional. Adoitan indicarse as diferenzas entre a adquisición de segundas e terceiras linguas. Os aprendices de terceiras linguas xa teñen os coñecementos adquiridos das dúas linguas previas e a experiencia que supón a súa aprendizaxe, polo que, entre outras vantaxes, posúen un maior repertorio lingüístico. Xurdiron diferentes modelos de adquisición da terceira lingua que se dividen en modelos teóricos, modelos empíricos e modelos de procesamento. Dentro dos primeiros destacan o modelo de mellora acumulativa (Flynn et al. 2004, Berkes & Flynn 2012), o modelo de primacía tipolóxica (Rothman 2015), e o modelo do factor do status da L2 (Bardel & Falk 2007). Os modelos empíricos inclúen o modelo do papel-función (Hammarberg 2001) e o modelo do factor (Hufeisen & Marx 2007). Polo que respecta aos modelos de procesamento, destacan o modelo dinámico de multilingüismo (Herdina & Jessner 2002) e o modelo de procesamento multilingüe (De Bot 2004, 2012).
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