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Direct linkVirginia Valian – Language Learning and Development, 2024
The first stage of combinatorial speech is better described as variable than uniform. Talk of variants obscures two different aspects of language (knowledge and use) and two different aspects of language development -- acquisition of the grammar (competence) and deployment of the grammar in speaking and listening (performance). Null subjects and…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Acquisition, Language Variation, Grammar
Backus, Ad – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
This issue of "Bilingualism: Language and Cognition" is about convergence, a type of language change that is contact-induced and results in greater similarity between two languages that are in contact with each other. In Backus (forthcoming), I have attempted an overview of contact-induced language change, focusing on causal factors, on mechanisms…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Bilingualism, Convergent Thinking, Language Classification
Peer reviewedWhaley, Lindsay J.; Grenoble, Lenore A.; Li, Fengxiang – Language, 1999
Demonstrates that two Tungusic languages, Evenki and Oroqen, that have long been treated as a single language for classification purposes, are better treated as distinct linguistic varieties. Fundamental questions are raised about the current classification of Tungusic languages and a renewed examination is suggested of the role of dialect…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Language Classification, Language Variation
Quirk, Randolph – 1991
It is argued that viewing learners' errors as evidence for the emergence of new varieties of the English language is dangerously mistaken, particularly where it leads to the abandonment of Standard English as a model for learners. It is shown how this view is mistaken by: (1) citing recent British thinking on the relationship of varieties of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Classification, Language Standardization
Peer reviewedMiller-Ockhuizen, Amanda; Sands, Bonny E. – Language & Communication, 1999
Argues that linguists have ignored diversity within the northern Khoesan (NK) group of languages of Southern Africa and this has had serious repercussions both for speakers of these languages and for linguistic theory. The variation that appears within NK has been ignored in part because a single variety has been misunderstood as being the !Kung…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Classification, Language Planning
Download full textSridhar, Kamal K. – 1985
A careful study of second language varieties (SLVs) of English, which have not yet entered the mainstream of sociolinguistic research because of neglect and misunderstanding, shows that they are qualitatively different from the categories recognized in current sociolinguistic typology. SLVs provide some of the clearest evidence of sociocultural…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, English (Second Language), Language Classification, Language Research
