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Rankin, Tom – Second Language Research, 2023
Grammar competition has been proposed as a model for second language (L2) acquisition. Variational Learning provides a framework within which to investigate the idea of grammar competition as the model requires a marriage of quantitative properties of the input with Universal Grammar. A diachronic variational model of grammar competition is…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Daller, Michael H.; Treffers-Daller, Jeanine; Furman, Reyhan – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
In the present article we provide evidence for the occurrence of transfer of conceptualization patterns in narratives of two German-Turkish bilingual groups. All bilingual participants grew up in Germany, but only one group is still resident in Germany (n = 49). The other, the returnees, moved back to Turkey after having lived in Germany for…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Form Classes (Languages), Motion, Foreign Countries
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Breitkreuz, Hartmut; Bosewitz, Rene – 1989
English idioms are catalogued for German speakers. The guide is designed to be used both as a reference and as a teaching tool. It is divided into sections, each listing and defining common idioms using a number of English verbs, then presenting them in the context of dialogues. Most sections contain idioms for six or seven more common verbs, then…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), English, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries