Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in event conceptualization? Expressions of Path among Japanese learners of English

Bilingualism

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-94

  Brown, Amanda ^a   Gullberg, Marianne ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

bidirectional cross linguistic influence; conceptualization; English; Japanese; Path of motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551468705     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728910000064     Document Type: Article

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