Disentangling Language Acquisition from Language Variation

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface xiii
4. Variationist Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition 1
5. Factors Affecting the Production of Word-initial Consonants in a Second Language 47
6. Markedness in Second Language Acquisition of Consonant Clusters 75
7. Competing Constraints on Variation in the Speech of Adult Chinese Learners of English 97
8. Tense Marking in the English of Spanish-speaking Adolescents 121
9. Form-Function Relations in Articles in English Interlanguage 135
10. Variation in french Interlanguage 177
11. Disentangling Language Acquisition from Language Variation 203
12. Some Notes on the Role of Misperception in Language Learning 245
13. Appendix: VARBRUL Analysis for Second Language Acquisition Research 253
14. Author Index 307
15. Subject Index 311