Grammatical Development in Language Learning: The Best of Language Learning SeriesISBN: 978-1-4051-3581-8
Paperback
246 pages
April 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Brings together insights from leading international researchers
to explore why learning the grammar of a second language is
difficult.
- Highlights the importance of transparency in form-meaning
relations as well as learners' aptitudes and previous language
learning experiences.
- Shows how diminutives facilitate gender acquisition in
Russian.
- Demonstrates how learners make semantic distinctions in
acquiring gender distinction in French.
- Evaluates the role of phonological short-term memory in the acquisition of gender in a semi-artificial linguistic system.