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)