Browsing CRLC Publications by Title
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Task outcomes: A focus on immersion students' use of pronominal verbs in their writing
(CAAL - ACLA - Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquee, 2000)Grade eight French immersion students worked in pairs to complete one of two tasks (jigsaw or dictogloss) based on the same story, both involving the production of a written narrative. Before completing one of these tasks ... -
The Acquisition of Community Speech Norms by Asians Immigrants Learning English as a Second Language: a preliminary study
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 1991)Investigation of Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants' acquisition of the English variable "ing" found that such production was constrained by phonological, grammatical, stylistic, and social factors. (39 references) (Author/CB) -
The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in French as a foreign language: An overview
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2004)The present contribution presents an overview of studies in French as a second (L2) and/or foreign language that consider the effects of extralinguistic variables (mostly instructional, experiential and situational factors) ... -
The emotional force of swearwords and taboo words in the speech of multilinguals
(Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, 2004)This paper investigates the perception of emotional force of swearwords and taboo words (S-T words) among 1039 multilinguals. It is based on data drawn from a large database collected through a web questionnaire on ... -
The expression of evidentiality in French-English bilingual discourse
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)ABSTRACT --This study, drawing on data from a large sociolinguistic interview corpus for three Acadian communities of Atlantic Canada, concerns codeswitches involving verbs of opinion or belief (e.g. guess, think, imagine, ... -
The L2 acquisition of a phonological variable: the case of /l/deletion in French
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2006)This article is situated within the recent strand of SLA research which applies variationist sociolinguistic methods to the study of the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation by the L2 speaker. Whilst that research ... -
The learning of sociostylistic variation by advanced FSL learners: The case of nous versus on
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2003)This paper synthesizes research on the acquisition of linguistic variation by learners of French as a second language--an overview that, to our knowledge, is the first of its kind. It also presents a case study on French ... -
The Legitimate and Illegitimate Offspring of English
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The Lonely Londoners en français : l'épreuve du métissage
(Association Canadienne de Traductologie, 2000)En 1956, l'écrivain trinidadien Sam Selvon (1923-1994) publiait The Lonely Londoners, un roman rédigé intégralement dans une variété de langue jusque là stigmatisée et confinée au domaine dialogal : le vernaculaire créole ... -
The nature of constraints on contact-induced change
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)no abstract -
The relationship between the group and the individual and the acquisition of native speaker variation patterns: a preliminary study
(Mouton Publishers, 2004)The relationship between group and individual has been explored within the variationist paradigm. In L1, group patterns of variation are replicated by the individual. Second language acquisition research is concerned with ... -
The Role of Consulting a Dictionary in Reading and Vocabulary Learning
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The Role of Knowledge About the L2 Code in Adult Second Language Aquisition: A Review of Theories and Research
(Brock University, 1992)This article reviews theories and research on the topic of the role of L2 code knowledge in adult second language acquisition. In the literature, this issue has been addressed from two main theoretical perspectives-cognitive ... -
The role of transfer in language variation and change: Evidence from contact varieties of French
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2005)In this Special Issue, the focus is on contact-induced language variation and change in situations of societal bilingualism that involve long-term contact between French and another language. As is well known, when two or ... -
The social and historical context of minority French language school in Ontario
(Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, 1986)This paper discusses the development of the minority French-speaking population in Ontario from its 17th century origin to the present day, focusing on the changing circumstances affecting minority French-language education. ... -
The social correlates and linguistic processes of lexical borrowing and assimilation
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Translation and Network Theories
(Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2007)The expanding field of network studies, which comprises histories, traditions and innovative research from myriad disciplines such as mathematics, the social sciences, linguistics, computer science, physics, biology, ... -
Une distinction mesurable : corpus oraux et écrits sur le continuum de la deixis
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2001)L'opposition oral/écrit est analysée à travers la variation dans les proportions des catégories grammaticales dans vingt-et-un corpus oraux et écrits italiens, néerlandais, français et d'interlangue française. Une analyse ... -
Use of restrictive expressions juste, seulement, and rien que in Ontario French, in Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
(ACLA_CAAL, 1998)This work examines the social, geographic and syntactic distribution of the synonymous French restrictives SEULEMENT, RIEN QUE, and JUSTE in the speech of adolescent Franco-Ontarians, and compares its findings with two ...