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Publication details [#6271]

Linnakylä, Pirjo. 1980. Hi superman: What is most functional English for a Finnish five-year-old. Journal of Pragmatics 4 (4) : 367–392.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | functions of language

Language as a subject

English | Finnish

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study aims at identifying and describing the primary functions of English usage of a five-year-old Finnish boy during his first eight months in the USA.