Typological constraints in foreign language acquisition: The expression of voluntary motion by upper intermediate and advanced Russian learners of English

LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 231-260

  Iakovleva, Tatiana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

Author keywords

Adult SLA; Conceptual transfer; Multilingualism; Space; Typology; Voluntary motion conceptualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872126270     PISSN: 18797865     EISSN: 18797873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lia.3.2.04iak     Document Type: Article

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