On the interactional effect of linguistic constraints on interlanguage variation: The case of past time marking
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Martin Howard
Abstract
Previous investigations of the variable marking of past time by the L2 learner have given rise to a number of hypotheses which predict the patterns of acquisition and use of past time markers in interlanguage (IL). However, given the complicity between their predictions, it has been previously noted that hypotheses such as the aspect and discourse hypotheses can be supported with the same data. In an attempt to distinguish between the effects of such multiple constraints in advanced French IL, this paper presents quantitative findings to suggest that no single factor exclusively outweighs another, but rather, the factors ‘interact’ in their effect, such that the causes of aspectuo-temporal variation are not singular, but indeed multiple.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Preface
- Variation in the group and the individual: Evidence from second language acquisition
- On the interactional effect of linguistic constraints on interlanguage variation: The case of past time marking
- The relationship between the group and the individual and the acquisition of native speaker variation patterns: A preliminary study
- Acquisition of the internal and external constraints of variable schwa deletion by French immersion students
- Phonetic norm versus usage in advanced French as a second language
- Vous or tu? Native and non-native speakers of French on a sociolinguistic tightrope
- External reviewers
- Index of articles in Volume 42 (2004)
Articles in the same Issue
- Preface
- Variation in the group and the individual: Evidence from second language acquisition
- On the interactional effect of linguistic constraints on interlanguage variation: The case of past time marking
- The relationship between the group and the individual and the acquisition of native speaker variation patterns: A preliminary study
- Acquisition of the internal and external constraints of variable schwa deletion by French immersion students
- Phonetic norm versus usage in advanced French as a second language
- Vous or tu? Native and non-native speakers of French on a sociolinguistic tightrope
- External reviewers
- Index of articles in Volume 42 (2004)
