The Acquisition of Community Speech Norms by Asians Immigrants Learning English as a Second Language: a preliminary study

Title:	The Acquisition of Community Speech Norms by Asians Immigrants Learning English as a Second Language: a preliminary study
Author:	Adamson H.D.; Regan, Vera
Abstract:	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)
Subject:	Sociolinguistic Variation Second Language Variation ESL Learning ESL English
Type:	Article
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10315/2503
Published:	Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org
Citation:	Studies in Second Language Acquisition; 13(1)
Date:	1991