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Peer reviewedHolmen, Anne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Reports on a longitudinal study of young immigrants' spoken Danish during the first months of their stay, focusing on the Albanian-, Vietnamese-, and English-speaking adolescents' syntactic development from a functional perspective. Changes in early syntax are seen as being rooted in cognitive as well as interactional dimensions of language use.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Danish, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Peer reviewedYlanne-McEwen, Virpi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
This study investigated complimenting behavior in three language varieties, British English, Finnish, and the interlanguage of Finish Learners of English. It found that compliments in Finnish tended to be longer and more syntactic than in English and that Finnish learners of English demonstrated appropriate complimenting behavior in English,…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, English
