TY - JOUR
T1 - A Preliminary Study
AU - Adamson, H. D.
AU - Regan, Vera M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research reported here began in a course in sociolinguistic field methods taught by Professor Gillian Sankoff, to whom we express our thanks. The members of this course and of a previous course collected the Philadelphia data and contributed greatly to our understanding thereof. They include: Andy Brown, Thea Lange, Young-suk Lee, Cheri Micheau, Monica Prasad, and Pam Saunders. We thank these scholars for allowing us to use their hard-won results. Thanks to Walt Wolfram of the Center For Applied Linguistics for allowing us to use the data from the Washington, DC, area informants. Thanks also to Jack Hoeksema, Richard Young, and Sharon Ash for helpful discussions. None of these scholars necessarily agrees with our claims. While working on this project, Adamson was supported by a Mellon Fellowship and Regan by a Fulbright Fellowship at the Linguistics Department, University of Pennsylvania.
PY - 1991/3
Y1 - 1991/3
N2 - We investigate Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants' acquisition of the variable (ing), which occurs in progressive tenses, participles, noun phrases, etc., and which can be pronounced [in] or [In]. A VARBRUL 2 program analysis of native speaker speech shows that the production of (ing) is constrained by phonological, grammatical, stylistic, and social factors. An analysis of the nonnative speakers' acquisition of these norms shows that [In] is more frequent before anterior segments (reflecting ease of articulation), and that males use [In] more frequently than females, especially in monitored speech (perhaps reflecting their desire to accommodate to a male native speaker norm rather than to an overall native speaker norm). The analysis also shows evidence of.
AB - We investigate Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants' acquisition of the variable (ing), which occurs in progressive tenses, participles, noun phrases, etc., and which can be pronounced [in] or [In]. A VARBRUL 2 program analysis of native speaker speech shows that the production of (ing) is constrained by phonological, grammatical, stylistic, and social factors. An analysis of the nonnative speakers' acquisition of these norms shows that [In] is more frequent before anterior segments (reflecting ease of articulation), and that males use [In] more frequently than females, especially in monitored speech (perhaps reflecting their desire to accommodate to a male native speaker norm rather than to an overall native speaker norm). The analysis also shows evidence of.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0272263100009694
DO - 10.1017/S0272263100009694
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84959631087
SN - 0272-2631
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 22
JO - Studies in Second Language Acquisition
JF - Studies in Second Language Acquisition
IS - 1
ER -