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- Title
Near-Native Sociolinguistic Competence in French: Evidence from Variable Future-Time Expression.
- Authors
Gudmestad, Aarnes; Edmonds, Amanda; Donaldson, Bryan; Carmichael, Katie
- Abstract
This study aims to advance the understanding of sociolinguistic competence among nearnative speakers and to further knowledge about the acquisition of variable structures. We conduct a quantitative analysis of variable future-time expression in informal conversations between near-native and native speakers of French. In addition to examining linguistic constraints that have been investigated in previous research, we build on prior work by introducing a new factor that enables us to consider the role that formality of the variants plays in the use of variable future-time expression. We conclude by comparing these new findings to those for the same dataset and other variable structures (namely, negation and interrogatives, Donaldson, 2016, 2017) and by advocating for more research that consists of multiple, complementary analyses of the same dataset.
- Subjects
KNOWLEDGE acquisition (Expert systems); PERFORMANCE; NATIVE language; EVIDENCE; QUANTITATIVE research
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue Canadiennne de Linguistique Appliquée, 2020, Vol 23, Issue 1, p169
- ISSN
1481-868X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37213/cjal.2020.28845