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The Acquisition of Community Speech Norms by Asian Immigrants Learning English as a Second Language: A Preliminary Study.

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Adamson, H. D.; Regan, Vera M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1991

Investigation of Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants' acquisition of the English variable "ing" found that such production was constrained by phonological, grammatical, stylistic, and social factors. (39 references) (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Cambodian, Cambodians, Community Influence, English (Second Language)

Syntax, Semantics, and SLA: The Convergence of Possessive and Existential Constructions.

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Duff, Patricia A. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1993

Analyzed longitudinal data from 28-year-old Cambodian man who, despite instruction in English-as-Second-Language and residence in English-speaking community, used form "has" for both possessives (PO) and existentials (EX). Shared semantic properties of PO/EX, together with syntactic, pragmatic, perceptual characteristics of native…

Descriptors: Cambodian, English (Second Language), Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning