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Peer reviewedKnaus, Valerie; Nadasdi, Terry – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2001
Examines verbal auxiliary selection in the speech of French immersion students. Examines variation in auxiliary selection in the oral discourse to determine to what extent it resembles that of native speakers. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, French, Immersion Programs
Direct linkRehner, Katherine; Mougeon, Raymond; Nadasdi, Terry – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This paper synthesizes research on the acquisition of linguistic variation by learners of French as a second language--an overview that, to our knowledge, is the first of its kind. It also presents a case study on French immersion students' acquisition of the pronouns "nous" and "on" "we," an alternation in many varieties of spoken French. The…
Descriptors: Language Variation, French, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
Uritescu, Dorin; Mougeon, Raymond; Rehner, Katherine; Nadasdi, Terry – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2004
This article is one among a series of studies on the acquisition of patterns of linguistic variation observable in the speech of native speakers of Canadian French by French immersion (FI) students. The present study is centered on deletion of the central vowel schwa, a widespread feature of casual spoken French. In this study, FI students are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, French, Language Variation
