Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,4, University of Hamburg (IAA), course: Second And Third Language Acquisition, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this term paper is to analyze the influences that the frequencies of language exposures and usage have on learners of a language. The analysis draws upon several theories, mentioned in Nick Ellis's -Frequency-based accounts of second language acquisition- and a -Longitudinal Study of Lexical Development in Children Learning Vietnamese and English- by Giang Pham...