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Publication details [#5616]

Klein, Wolfgang H. 1983. Der Ausdruck der Temporalität im ungesteuerten Spracherwerb. In Rauh, Gisa, ed. Essays on deixis. G. Narr. pp. 149–168.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

German

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | immigrant worker | time deixis, L2-acquisition of

Language as a subject

German, L2-acquisition of

Annotation

Concerning the problem of the non-directed language acquisition of Italian and Spanish foreign workers in Germany, two questions are asked: (i) how is the German system for the expression of temporal relations learned, and (ii) how does a speaker who has the cognitive possibilities but not the corresponding forms of expression manage to express temporal relations?