Publications

Publication details [#1511]

Blum-Kulka, Shoshana and Eddie A. Levenston. 1978. Universals of lexical simplification. Language Learning 28 : 399–415.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language interference | lexical simplification

Journal WWW

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Annotation

A comparative study of lexical simplification in some contexts of second language acquisition, intended to check the claim that lexical simplification operates according to universal principles deriving from the individual's semantic competence in his mother tongue.

Reprints

Faerch, Claus and Gabriele Kasper. 1983. In Faerch, Claus and Gabriele Kasper, eds. Strategies in interlanguage communication. Longman. pp. 119–139.