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Publication details [#12550]

Viberg, Åke. 1999. Lexical development in a second language. In Extra, Guus and Ludo Verhoeven. Bilingualism and Migration. (Studies on Language Acquisition 14). De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 165–185.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | L2-acquisition | lexicon | verb

Language as a subject

Swedish

Annotation

It is concluded that the use of nuclear verbs in the lexical development of children with L2 Swedish reflects universal principles of organization of the verb lexicon in human languages.