No evidence of L1 path encoding strategies in the L2 in advanced Bulgarian speakers of Norwegian

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 275-304

  Dimitrova Vulchanova, Mila ^a   Martínez, Liliana ^a   Eshuis, Rik ^a   Listhaug, Kjersti ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acquisition of spatial categories; L1 transfer into L2; Mapping between semantics and syntax; Motion; Path; Path functions; Spatial language

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION OF SPATIAL CATEGORIES; L1 TRANSFER INTO L2; MOTION; PATH; SPATIAL LANGUAGE;

SEMANTICS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

EID: 84874269180     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875868.2012.658931     Document Type: Article

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