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Item Open Access Brussels French une fois: Transfer-induced innovation or system-internal development(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2005) Treffers-Daller, JeanineIn language contact studies, specific features of the contact languages are often seen to be the result of transfer (interference), but it remains difficult to disentangle the role of intra-systemic and inter-systemic factors. We propose to unravel these factors in the analysis of a feature of Brussels French which many researchers attribute to transfer from (Brussels) Dutch: the adverbial use of une fois. We compare the use of this particle in Brussels French with its occurrence in corpora of other varieties of French, including several that have not been influenced by a Germanic substrate or adstrate. A detailed analysis of the frequency of occurrence, the functions and the distribution of the particle over different syntactic positions shows that some uses of une fois can be traced back to sixteenth-century French, but that there is also ample evidence for overt and covert transfer (Mougeon and Beniak, 1991) from Brussels Dutch.Item Open Access Gender assignment and gender agreement in advanced French Interlanguage: a cross-sectional study(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2001)An analysis of 519 gender errors (out of 9,378 modifiers) in the advanced French interlanguage of 27 Dutch L1 speakers conforms earlier findings that gender assignment and/or agreement remain problematic for learners at all levels. A hypothesis derived from Pienemann's Processability Theory (1998a) that accuracy rates would be higher for gender agreement in structures involving no exchange of grammatical information between constituents was not confirmed. The analysis of interindividual and intra-individual variation in gender accuracy rates revealed effects from avoidance and generalisation strategies, from linguistic variables, sociobiographical variables and psycholinguistic variables. We argue that gender errors can originate at the lemma level, at the gender node level, or at the lexeme level. Different psycholinguistic scenarios are presented to account for intra-individual variation in gender assignment and agreement.Item Open Access Maîtriser la norme sociolinguistique en interlangue française : le cas de l'omission variable de 'ne'(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2002) Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Regan, VeraL'acquisition de la norme sociolinguistique française pose des problèmes considérables aux locuteurs non-natifs. L'analyse de la variation dans l'omission du ne dans un corpus d'interlangue avancée de 27 apprenants néerlandophones interviewés dans une situation informelle et formelle confirme que l'instruction formelle est insuffisante pour la maîtrise de la norme sociolinguistique native. Une majorité de locuteurs omettent le ne un peu moins souvent dans une situation formelle mais la variation va dans le sens opposé pour une minorité de locuteurs. L'observation et surtout la participation à des interactions authentiques avec des locuteurs natifs stimulent l'acquisition de la norme sociolinguistique. Une analyse statistique révèle que différentes variables socio-biographiques, psychologiques et situationnelles déterminent la variation intra- et interindividuelle dans les taux d'omission du ne.Item Open Access Sociodemographic, psychological and politico-cultural correlates in Flemish students' attitude toward French and English(Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, 2005) Dewaele, Jean-MarcAn analysis of 100 Flemish high-school students' attitudes towards French and English (both foreign languages) revealed complex links etween personality factors, gender, politicocultural identity, communicative behaviour and foreign language attitudes. Attitudes towards English were found to be much more positive than those towards French, despite the fact that the participants had enjoyed a longer and more intense formal instruction in French (it being their second language). The independent variables were found to have stronger effects for French than for English, with the exception of politicocultural identity of the participant, which had a strong effect on attitudes towards French but not English. Overall, it seems that social factors, including exposure to the foreign languages, are linked with lowerlevel personality dimensions and thus shape attitudes towards these languages.Item Open Access Variation synchronique des taux d'exactitude(Mouton Publishers, 1994) Dewaele, Jean-MarcThis paper examines the effect of formality in 3 different situations on the oral production of advanced French interlanguage. An analysis of the morphological and lexical systems of 39 Dutch-speaking students revealed that, contrary to predictions (Tarone, 1988, 1992), the more formal situation does not lead to higher accuracy rates. On the contrary, a small but significant decrease in global morpholexical accuray rates was observed in the extracts produced in the more formal situation. This rather surprising pattern was explained using Levelt's (1989) monitor theory. An ANOVA allowed for the identifcation of the sociobiographical factors that determine interindividual variation in accuracy rates.