Publications

Publication details [#39062]

Palmberg, Rolf. 1988. On lexical inferencing and language distance. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (2) : 207–214.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

inference | language distance

Language as a subject

English | Swedish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This experiment, involving Swedish-speaking children with no experience of learning English at school, shows how selected reading material can be employed to enhance understanding of foreign texts for young learners of a foreign language, closely related to their mother tongue.