Vera Regan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Vera Regan plays a role.
Yearbook
ISSN 1568-1491 | E-ISSN 1569-9749
2022 Chapter 10. Variation, identity and language attitudes: Polish migrants in France Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li (eds.), pp. 253–278 | Chapter
This chapter examines migrants’ use of French L2, analysing the speech of ten L1 Polish speakers, thirty to sixty years, in a naturalistic setting. Using informal conversations, this study focuses on L1 variation patterns; specifically ne deletion, a sensitive and powerful indicator of social… read more
2021 Chapter 8. Second language acquisition and dialectal variation in adults Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan, Ghimenton, Anna, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot (eds.), pp. 185–198 | Chapter
This chapter addresses the issue of how the L2 speaker acquires the probabilistic grammar of another language. This implies the related, wider question of whether, as humans, we have some innate knowledge of probabilities and what form such knowledge takes for L2 speakers. The issue is addressed… read more
2015 The significance of age and place of residence in the positional distribution of discourse like in L2 speech Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan (eds.), pp. 408–432 | Article
This chapter investigates the use of discourse markers in L2 Irish English, specifically like by Polish people, assuming that the use of discourse markers is an indicator of integration. Quantitative and qualitative approaches are used to analyse the corpus of speech, focusing in particular on the… read more
2012 Discourse ‘like’ and social identity – a case study of Poles in Ireland New Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina and Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.), pp. 327–354 | Article
Ireland has experienced momentous change in the last decade and a half. Migrants now make up a significant percentage of the population and the question of integration continues to be pertinent. One indicator of integration is language, and the fluency with which an L2 speaker uses L1 discourse… read more
2010 Sociolinguistic competence, variation patterns and identity construction in L2 and multilingual speakers EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 10 (2010), Roberts, Leah, Martin Howard, Muiris Ó Laoire and David Singleton (eds.), pp. 21–37 | Article
2001 The use of colloquial words in advanced French interlanguage EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 1 (2001), Foster-Cohen, Susan H. and Anna Nizegorodcew (eds.), pp. 51–67 | Article
This article addresses the issue of underrepresentation or avoidance of colloquial words in a cross-sectional corpus of advanced French interlanguage (IL) of 29 Dutch L1 speakers and in a longitudinal corpus of 6 Hiberno-Irish English L1 speakers compared with a control group of 6 native speakers… read more
1996 Variation in french Interlanguage: A Longitudinal Study of Sociolinguistic Competence Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation, Bayley, Robert and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 177–202 | Article
1995 The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Native Speech Norms: Effects of a Year Abroad on Second Language Learners of French Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context, Freed, Barbara F. (ed.), pp. 245–268 | Article