Finding one's path into another language: On the expression of boundary crossing by english learners of French

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 99, Issue S1, 2015, Pages 14-31

  Hendriks, Henriette ^a   Hickmann, Maya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

Author keywords

Adult second language acquisition; Boundary crossing; Motion events; Typology of space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923012261     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2015.12176.x     Document Type: Article

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