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Variation in the use of discourse markers in a language contact situation
(Cambridge University Press; http://www.cambridge.org/, 1997)
Use of discourse markers by 17 speakers of Anglophone Montreal French
(AMF) showed great variation in individual repertoires and frequency of use.
Only five subjects manifested rates of usage comparable to those native
speakers ...
Phonetic norm versus usage in advanced French as a second language
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2004)
This article is drawn from a large-scale ongoing study on linguistic progress in advanced French as a second language (FL2). The performance of 48 English-speaking students who spent their third year of university in France ...
Second language acquisition and "real" French: An investigation of subject doubling in the French of Montreal Anglophones
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2002)
ABSTRACT --We investigated the French of the first generation of Montreal Anglophones who
had had access to French immersion schooling. Our aim was to determine the extent
to which these Anglophones had acquired the ...
Acquisition of the internal and external constraints of variable schwa deletion by French Immersion students
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2004)
This article is one among a series of studies on the acquisition of patterns of linguistic variation observable in the speech of native speakers of Canadian French by French immersion (FI) students. The present study is ...
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 ...
Le contexte d' acquisition : la variation du groupe et de l' individu
(DEPA-Université Paris VIII, 2002)
Le problème du rapport entre le locuteur individuel et le groupe a été étudié par les chercheurs variationnistes. Ceux-ci ont découvert à propos des locuteurs en langue première, que les tendances générales de la communauté ...
Agreeing to disagree: Variable subject-verb agreement in immersion French
(CAAL - ACLA - Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquee, 2001)
The present study examines the variable presence/absence of third person plural marking on French verbs in the speech of French immersion students. The analysis considers both linguistic and social factors that condition ...
Emploi du "futur" dans le français parlé des élèves d'immersion française
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2003)
Notre étude porte sur l'acquisition des variantes du futur par les élèves d'immersion. Tous comme les locuteurs L1, ces élèves emploient trois variantes (le futur périphrastique; le futur fléchi et le présent de l'indicatif) ...
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) ...