Tracing trajectories: Motion event construal by advanced L2 French-English and L2 French-German speakers

LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 202-230

  Carroll, Mary ^a   Weimar, Katja ^a   Flecken, Monique ^a   Lambert, Monique ^b   Von Stutterheim, Christiane ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Université Paris 8   (Germany)

^c Lichtenberg Kolleg   (Germany)

Author keywords

English; French; German; L2 acquisition; Motion event construal; Restructuring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872143272     PISSN: 18797865     EISSN: 18797873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lia.3.2.03car     Document Type: Article

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