Driving along the road or heading for the village? Conceptual differences underlying motion event encoding in French, German, and French-German L2 users

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 99, Issue S1, 2015, Pages 100-122

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

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic analysis; Eye tracking; L2 acquisition; Language production; Motion events; Path of motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923064235     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2015.12181.x     Document Type: Article

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