Variation in Second and Heritage Languages
Crosslinguistic perspectives
Editors
Robert Bayley | University of California, DavisDennis R. Preston | University of KentuckyXiaoshi Li | Michigan State University
Variationist work in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) began in the mid 1970s and steadily progressed during the 1980s. Much of it was reviewed along with newer approaches in Bayley and Preston 1996 (B&P), heavily devoted to VARBRUL analyses that exposed the variability in developing interlanguages and placed variationist work within the canon of SLA. This new volume features three developing trends. First, it widens the scope of L1s of learners (from 6 in B&P to 8) and L2 targets (2 in B&P to 7) and in each case has brought more careful demographic and variable considerations to bear, including heritage languages and study abroad. Second, it modernizes statistics by moving from VARBRUL to the more widely used log-odds probabilities that allow more detailed consideration of variables and their influences. Finally, it deepens consideration of variable sociolinguistic meaning in learner behaviors, a dominating feature of 3rd Wave variationist work.
[Studies in Language Variation, 28] 2022. xx, 365 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of tables | pp. ix–xii
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List of figures | pp. xiii–xiv
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Acknowledgements | pp. xv–xvi
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Editors and contributors | pp. xvii–xx
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Chapter 1. Variation and second language acquisition: Recent developments and future directionsDennis R. Preston, Robert Bayley and Chelsea Escalante | pp. 1–14
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Chapter 2. An investigation of the use of the multifunctional particle ‑le by second language learners of Mandarin ChineseXiaoshi Li, Robert Bayley, Xinye Zhang and Yaqiong Cui | pp. 15–42
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Chapter 3. Production and evaluation of sociolinguistic variation in Mandarin Chinese among children in SingaporeRebecca Lurie Starr | pp. 43–70
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Chapter 4. Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of L3 variation: A comparison of speech and writingMihi Park | pp. 71–96
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Chapter 5. What can Cantonese heritage speakers tell us about age of acquisition, linguistic dominance, and sociophonetic variation?Holman Tse | pp. 97–126
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Chapter 6. Spanish rhotic variation and development in uninstructed immersionChelsea Escalante and Robyn Wright | pp. 127–158
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Chapter 7. Linguistic variation and second language Spanish: A study of progressive and habitual marking by English-speaking learnersKimberly L. Geeslin and Stephen Fafulas | pp. 159–198
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Chapter 8. Acquiring sociolinguistic competence during study abroad: U.S. students in Buenos AiresRebecca Pozzi | pp. 199–222
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Chapter 9. Variation in choice of prepositions with place names on the French L1–L2 continuum in Ontario, CanadaKatherine Rehner, Raymond Mougeon and Françoise Mougeon | pp. 223–252
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Chapter 10. Variation, identity and language attitudes: Polish migrants in FranceVera Regan | pp. 253–278
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Chapter 11. Sociostylistic variation in L2 French: What schwa deletion patterns reveal about language acquisition during study abroadKristen Kennedy Terry | pp. 279–310
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Chapter 12. Differential object marking in heritage and homeland ItalianMargherita Di Salvo and Naomi Nagy | pp. 311–336
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Chapter 13. On (not) acquiring a sociolinguistic stereotype: A variationist account of L2-Catalan lateral production by L1-Spanish bilingualsJustin Davidson | pp. 337–358
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Author index | pp. 359–362
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Subject index | pp. 363–365
Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFB – Sociolinguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009050 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2022013177