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Based on results from the European Science Foundation's Additional Activity on the second language acquisition of adult immigrants. This work analyzes from a longitudinal and cross-linguistic perspective the acquisition of the linguistic means to express spatial relations in the target languages English, French and German. Learners' progress in the expression of spatial relations is closely followed over a period of 30 months using a wide range of oral data, and the factors determining both the specifics of individual source/target language pairings, and the general characteristics of all cases of acquisition studied, are described. In particular, a basic system for the expression of spatial relations common to all learners from all language backgrounds is identified. The book presents results in English on the acquisition of L2 means to express the basic cognitive and communicational category of space from a comparative linguistic point of view.

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Author:   Angelika Becker (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen) ,  Mary Carroll (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen) ,  Jorge Giacobbe ,  Clive Perdue
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   11
Weight:   0.555kg
ISBN:  

9789027241177

ISBN 10:   9027241171
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   23 May 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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