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Publication details [#58028]

Thordardottir, Elin and Anna Gudrun Juliusdottir. 2013. Icelandic as a second language: a longitudinal study of language knowledge and processing by school-age children. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 16 (4) : 411–435.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

economics | grammar1 | L2-acquisition | language processing | language proficiency

Language as a subject

Icelandic

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper suggests that school-age children's slower Icelandic as a second language (L2) acquisition, in comparison with English as a L2 acquisition, could be linked to the language's grammatical intricacy and its shallow global economic worth.