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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Becker, Angelika.

Contributor:

Carroll, Mary, 1947-

Giacobbe, Jorge.

Perdue, Clive.

Porquier, Rémy.

European Science Foundation.

Series:

Studies in bilingualism ; v. 11.

Studies in bilingualism, 0928-1533 ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Space and time in language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613222138

90-272-8276-5

1-283-22213-2

OCLC:

742333672