going back at least six generations on all sides of his family. He studied German in college, got to study abroad for a while, and then decided to bring up his children bilingually. The book describes his remarkable successful experiment in bringing up three children as German speakers in Aus...
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I can read French reasonably well and can write functional French but I’m much less adept at conversational French, in part because I’m still in the mode of trying to translate from English in my head while speaking and also because I have difficulty following French speakers, who ...
Genetic evaluations of the German Sport Horse: population structure and use of data from foal and mare inspections and performance tests of mares. Arch Anim Breed. 2013;56:658–74. Google Scholar Schroder W, Stock KF, Distl O. Genetic evaluation of Hanoverian warmblood horses for conformation...
In adults, it has been demonstrated that English-French bilinguals rely on the segmentation strategy of their dominant language (i.e., stress-based segmentation for English, syllable-based segmentation for French) and that they have difficulty applying the segmentation strategy of their non-dominant ...
(2006) for German and of Pynte and Kennedy (2006) for English (though not for French) – and additionally in regression path duration [effect size = −63 ms; β = −10.11; SE = 3.51; p = .007]. More frequent words N + 1 also elicited a lower refixation likelihood [effect ...
All together, it includes 29 children [4, 5]. The described diagnosis breakdown of ILD is similar to the German study and confirms that the main diagnoses of ILD are surfactant disorders, haemosiderosis, granulomatous diseases (sarcoidosis) and alveolar proteinosis [1, 3]....
and 26 years old. The learners were native speakers of Mexican Spanish. They had all learned French in the BA program only and had never been to a French-speaking country. They were learning English in their BA and an additional foreign language (e.g., German, Italian, Japanese, ...
Reasons for the difficulty in retrieving the phonological form of the word can be of different kinds: low exposure to the word, low repetition/production by the child, and/or the teaching method (i.e., the context and manner in which non-words are taught to children). In the next study...
It investigates why advanced French learners of English and German have difficulty acquiring the use of spatial concepts typical of the L2s to shape the trajectory, although relevant concepts can be expressed in their L1. The analysis compares motion event descriptions, based on the same sets of ...