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Publication details [#29688]

Versteegh, Kees. 1993. Esperanto as a first language: language acquisition with a restricted input. Linguistics 31 (3) : 539–555.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L1-acquisition | L2-acquisition | language acquisition | language proficiency | language use

Language as a subject

Esperanto | Hebrew, Modern

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper deals with the acquisition of Esperanto as a first language with restricted input, as the parents are not native speakers of Esperanto themselves. This special case of language acquisition is compared with creolization processes and with the acquisition of modern Hebrew.