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Peer reviewedKlein, Wolfgang; Perdue, Clive – Second Language Research, 1997
Discusses the implications of the tendency of adult second-language learners to develop a well-structured, simple form of language outside the classroom, i.e. the Basic Variety (BV). Focuses on the structural properties of the BV, the status of these properties and the reasons why some structural properties of "fully fledged" languages are more…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Vocabulary, Grammar, Language Processing
