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Direct linkLi, Liu; Hin Tat, Cheung – First Language, 2014
Idiomatic expressions pose substantial learning difficulties for learners across languages and tend to be acquired later in the course of language development both in L1 and L2. A number of factors have been identified as contributing to this difficulty. However, cross-linguistic studies on figurative language acquisition are still rare. The…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Figurative Language, Chinese
