Chapter Predicting language-learning difficulty

• Hlavní autor: Cysouw, Michael (auth)
• Další autoři: Saxena, Anju (Editor), Borin, Lars (Editor)
• Médium: Elektronický zdroj Kapitola
• Jazyk: angličtina
• Vydáno: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Témata: linguistics; linguistic differences
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The difficulty people have in learning a foreign language strongly depends on how different this language is from their native tongue (Kellerman 1979). Although this statement seems uncontroversial in the general form as it is formulated here, the devil lies in the detail, namely in the problem how...