Abstract :
The language of schooling is characterized by (formulaic) typical linguistic patterns. The existing research on language acquisition assumes that those patterns are acquired implicitely during primary language acquisition without didactical support. This paper questions this presupposition and investigates the mode of pattern acquisition, i.e. whether patterns are indeed acquired as fixed patterns/idiomatic expressions or are rather learned during the development of the language of schooling.
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