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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Xavier  Villalba
Institution:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Email:	click here to access email
Homepage:	http://seneca.uab.es/xaviervillalba
State and/or Country:	Barcelona Spain
Linguistic Field(s):	Phonetics Semantics Syntax Lexicography
Subject Language(s):	Catalan-Valencian-Balear
Dissertation Abstract:	The Syntax of Sentence Periphery
Academic Paper Abstract:	An exceptional exclamative sentence type in Romance
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