Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation: 10 (Studies in Bilingualism) - Softcover

9789027241221: Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation: 10 (Studies in Bilingualism)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9027241228 ISBN 13: 9789027241221

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1996

This volume corrects the relative neglect in Second Language Acquisition studies of the quantitative study of language variation and provides insights into such issues as language transfer, acquisition through exposure, language universals, learner’s age and so forth.
These studies bolster the idea that a full account of SLA development (and, hence, a “theory of SLA”) must be built on not only detailed accounts of interlanguage data but also on a wide appeal to factors which govern the psycholinguistic bases of SLA.
An important addition to the volume is a comprehensive guide to both the DOS and Macintosh versions of the VARBRUL statistical program used by variationists.

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Review

This book should be required reading for graduate students in any research methods course on L2 acquisition; I used it as a course text in a course on interlanguage variation a the 1977 LSA Summer Institute, and I found that several chapters were accessible even to relative beginners in the field. -- Elaine Tarone, Language in Society 28:3 (1999)

Synopsis

Part of the series "Studies in Bilingualism", this text covers such topics as: variationist perspectives on second-language acquisition; factors affecting the production of word-initial consonants; and markedness in second-language acquisition of consonant clusters.

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