Language learning and vantage theory

Language Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 591-624

  Pishwa, Hanna ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Background and foreground in grammar; Categorization; Cognitive strategies of language learning; Conceptual frames; Conceptual viewpoint; English; Holistic versus analytic views; Language acquisition; Schemata; Similarity judgement; Vantage theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944444493     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(01)00006-7     Document Type: Article

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