Second language acquisition and linguistic variation /
[Book]
edited by Robert Bayley, Dennis R. Preston
Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
c1996
xviii, 317 p. ;
23 cm
Studies in bilingualism (SiBil),
v. 10
0928-1533 ;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Variationist perspectives on second language acquisition / Daennis R. Preston -- Factors affecting the production of word-intial consonants in a second language / James Emil Flege, Murray J. Munro, and Ian R.A. MacKay -- Markedness in second language acquisition of consonant clusters / Roy C. Major -- Competing constraints on variation in the speech of adult Chinese learners of English / Robert Bayley -- Tense marking in the English of Spanish-speaking adolescents / H.D. Adamson ... [et al.] -- Form-function relations in articles in English interlanguage / Richard Young -- Variation in French interlanguage : a longitudinal study of sociolinguistic competence / Vera Regan -- Disentangling language acquisition from language variation / Robert Berdan -- Some notes on the role of misperception in language learning / William Labov -- Appendix : VABRUL analysis for second language acquistion research / Richard Young and Robert Bayley