Living and working in immersion French
| dc.contributor.author | Nadasdi, Terry | |
| dc.contributor.author | McKinnie, Meghan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-13T19:00:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-07-13T19:00:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Abstract -- Our study presents a variationist analysis of lexical variation in L2 immersion in French. Two variables are considered: a) words referring to remunerated work, e.g. travail; b) verbs used to indicate one's place of residence, e.g. habiter. One linguistic factor, priming in the interviewer's question, is shown to condition both variables. A number of social factors are also considered. The only correlation that obtains with a social factor is speakers' home language for the ‘work’ variable. The main finding from our study is that in comparison to L1 Canadian Francophones, the immersion students make use of a limited number of lexical variants and show no knowledge of highly frequent non standard L1 forms. (Received January 2000) (Revised August 2001) | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | The Journal of French Language studies; 13 (1) 41-60 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0959-2695 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/2703 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | |
| dc.subject | French as a Second Language | |
| dc.subject | Second language acquisition | |
| dc.subject | Second Language Variation | |
| dc.subject | Sociolinguistic variation | |
| dc.subject | French Immersion | |
| dc.title | Living and working in immersion French | |
| dc.type | Article |