This chapter deals with the acquisition of two sociolinguistic variables of twenty-nine American and Chinese learners of French. The purpose is to track the production and evaluation of the optional liaison and the variable deletion of negative ne during a 9-month stay abroad (SA) and to take a… read more
In the study of liaison acquisition, a key line of inquiry has focused on potential differences and similarities between L1 and L2 French speakers. However, such a comparison encounters a number of difficulties such as matching learners in terms of language exposure, age, and learning abilities.… read more
Despite repeated calls for in-depth research, the acquisition of patterns of sociolinguistic variation has long been an underinvestigated topic both in sociolinguistics and in language acquisition research. With the exception of a few exploratory studies, most notably Labov (1964), it has long been… read more