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Pavesi, Maria – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1987
Analysis of Italian speakers' lexical substitutions, including errors and acceptable choices, when expressing spatial reference in English-as-a-second-language indicates that these substitutions do not occur randomly, but are informed by principles of lexical simplification. (CB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Italian, Language Patterns
