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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456543403321

Autore

Becker Angelika

Titolo

The acquisition of spatial relations in a second language [[electronic resource] /] / Angelika Becker, Mary Carroll ; in co-operation with Jorge Giacobbe, Clive Perdue, Rémi Porquiez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c1997

ISBN

9786613222138

90-272-8276-5

1-283-22213-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Studies in bilingualism, , 0928-1533 ; ; v. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

CarrollMary <1947->

GiacobbeJorge

PerdueClive

PorquiezRémi

Disciplina

401/.93

Soggetti

Second language acquisition

Space and time in language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on a report entitled Second language acquisition by adult immigrants, final report IV (Strasbourg, 1988), which was submitted to the European Science Foundation.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

THE ACQUISITION OF SPATIAL RELATIONS IN A SECOND LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Background to the study; 2 Theoretical framework; 3 The acquisition of English; 4 The acquisition of German; 5 The acquisition of French; 6 General conclusions; APPENDIX: the learners; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the third to appear in the SIBIL series based on results from the European Science Foundation's Additional Activity on the second language acquisition of adult immigrants. It analyses 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 pairing