| Variation in Interlanguage Morphology Contributor(s): Belasco, Simon (Editor), Young, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 082041381X ISBN-13: 9780820413815 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $56.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Education | Language Experience Approach - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 401.93 |
| LCCN: 90-42246 |
| Series: Theoretical Studies in Second Language Acquisition |
| Physical Information: 284 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This major contribution to second language acquisition theory examines the question of the systematicity of learners' language. Richard Young proposes a new descriptive model for handling what other investigators have claimed to be random variations in performance, and he tests the model on plural inflections in the English interlanguage of Chinese learners. The study investigates how factors such as the social context of speech, the linguistic environment of a variable, and the tendency to omit redundant information affect the developing interlanguage system. The representation of learners' language which emerges from this study is richer, more complex, and more descriptively adequate than has previously been available. |