Environmental influence on language acquisition: Comparing second and foreign language acquisition of Swedish

Language Learning

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 628-650

  Håkansson, Gisela ^a   Norrby, Catrin ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

L2 exposure; L2 Swedish; Language acquisition; Pragmatics; Processability Theory; Second versus foreign; Word association

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955235643     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2010.00569.x     Document Type: Article

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