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The Expression of Number and Person through Verb Morphology in Advanced French Interlanguage
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Howard, Martin – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2006
This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the variation underlying subject-verb agreement in the spoken French interlanguage of Irish classroom and study abroad learners. Results outline the range of factors constraining that variation, such as the learners' level of informal contact with the language, as well as linguistic factors such as…
Descriptors: Verbs, Interlanguage, French, Statistical Analysis
On the Interactional Effect of Linguistic Constraints on Interlanguage Variation: The Case of Past Time Marking
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Howard, Martin – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2004
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…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Prediction