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Systems of Verb Classification and Cohesion of Verb-Complement Relations as Structural Conditions on Interference in a Child's L2 Development. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 18.
Zobl, Helmut – 1979
Developmental data from the acquisition of English by a German child, aged 5, are analyzed with a view to identifying structural conditions that give rise to interference, and to determine which L2 structures are affected and which structures govern developmental changes. Word order in German and English sentences ahve reflexes in different…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language)