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Peer reviewedHolmen, Anne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Reports on a longitudinal study of young immigrants' spoken Danish during the first months of their stay, focusing on the Albanian-, Vietnamese-, and English-speaking adolescents' syntactic development from a functional perspective. Changes in early syntax are seen as being rooted in cognitive as well as interactional dimensions of language use.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Danish, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Peer reviewedKotsinas, Ulla-Britt – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Posits two hypotheses arising from the great immigration to Sweden and the immigrants' use and learning of Swedish: (1) Swedish as used by immigrant children may show certain features, related to a creolization process; and (2) the Swedish language may in future show signs of influence from the varieties used by persons with immigrant background.…
Descriptors: Children, Dialects, Immigrants, Interlanguage
Peer reviewedThonus, Terese – World Englishes, 1991
A study of 47,542 telephone directory listings of business names in Brazil to document the extent of Englishization in Brazilian Portuguese indicated that business names, rather than being linked to an international variety of commercial English, may be viewed as a form of function interlanguage identifying the referent as trendy or unique. (28…
Descriptors: Business Communication, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Industry
Peer reviewedYlanne-McEwen, Virpi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
This study investigated complimenting behavior in three language varieties, British English, Finnish, and the interlanguage of Finish Learners of English. It found that compliments in Finnish tended to be longer and more syntactic than in English and that Finnish learners of English demonstrated appropriate complimenting behavior in English,…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, English
Cornu, A. M.; Delahaye, M. – ESP Journal, 1987
When analyzing data concerning interlanguage variation and discourse domain, it appears that learners may exhibit more control in their work-domain than in their life-story domain. Data were collected on the Dutch-French interlanguage of two university economics students to investigate the relation of domain to variation in utterances. (Author/…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dutch, French
Download full textLynch, Tony, Ed. – Edinburgh Working Papers in Linguistics, 1992
Edinburgh Working Papers is intended to show a yearly cross-section of current work in Edinburgh's Department of Applied Linguistics and to elicit reactions and criticism. Papers in this compilation include the following: "Asymmetric Resetting of the Non-Empty Topic Parameter by Chinese-Speaking Learners of English"; "The…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cluster Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
