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    Chapter Predicting language-learning difficulty

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    Author(s)
    Cysouw, Michael
    Contributor(s)
    Saxena, Anju (editor)
    Borin, Lars (editor)
    Collection
    European Research Council (ERC); EU collection
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    The difficulty people have in learning a foreign language strongly depends on how different this language is from their native tongue (Kellerman 1979). Although this statement seems uncontroversial in the general form as it is formulated here, the devil lies in the detail, namely in the problem how to define differences between languages. In this paper, I investigate various factors that quantify differences between languages, and explore to which extend these factors predict language learning difficulty. This investigation results in concrete predictive formulas that derive the learning difficulty for native English speakers depending on a small selection of linguistic factors of the language to be learned.
    Book
    Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23714
    Keywords
    linguistic differences
    DOI
    10.1515/9783110305258.57
    ISBN
    9783110488081
    OCN
    1135847116
    Publisher
    De Gruyter
    Publisher website
    https://www.degruyter.com/
    Publication date and place
    Berlin/Boston, 2013
    Grantor
    • FP7 Ideas: European Research Council - 240816 - QUANTHISTLING Research grant informationFind all documents
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    Linguistics
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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