The Acquisition of Community Speech Norms by Asians Immigrants Learning English as a Second Language: a preliminary study
Date
1991
Authors
Adamson H.D.
Regan, Vera
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org
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)
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Keywords
Sociolinguistic variation, Second Language Variation, ESL Learning, ESL, English
Citation
Studies in Second Language Acquisition; 13(1)