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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:	Nigel  Vincent
Institution:	University of Manchester
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	Language, Linguistics and Philology: Papers from the Philological Society Anniversary Symposium, November 1992  Romance Languages  A Natural History of Latin  Linguistic Areas
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	A Natural History of Latin
Dissertation Director * of:	The Synchrony and Diachrony of Romance Infinitives with Nominative Subjects (Ioanna Sitaridou, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Sociolinguistic Variation in a Second Language: The influence of local accent on the pronunciation of non-native English speakers living in Manchester (Rob Drummond, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The Typology of Constituent Questions: A Lexical-Functional Grammar analysis of 'wh'-questions (Louise Mycock, Author)
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