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By Wolfgang Klein

ISBN-10: 9027241066

ISBN-13: 9789027241061

This quantity provides the result of a part of the ESF venture 'Second language acquisition by way of grownup immigrants'. the current research offers in particular with constitution of utterances in learner forms. The authors have tried to discover basic rules which verify the shape of utterances from the very commencing to rather complex levels. bankruptcy 1 and a couple of give you the framework for the examine and right here the guiding hypotheses are sketched at the foundation of a pilot research. The empirical a part of the research is contained in Chapters 3-6, within which facts are given for the purchase of, respectively, English (by Punjabi and Italian learners), German (Italian and Turkish learners), Dutch (Turkish and Moroccon rookies) and French (Moroccon and Spanish learners), hence making an allowance for crosslinguistic comparisons in a variety of methods. for every data-set the learner's linguistic repertoire is confirmed, after which the utterance styles recurrent in his/her creation and the restrictions those styles are topic to. In bankruptcy 7 the overall and theoretical implications are mentioned.

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Very often, his production gives the impression of being carefully planned, with clear prosodic phrasing of each word. It is also interesting to note that quoted speech, another "metalinguistic" device which he often uses (as other informants do) appears to be closer to the German standard than utterances in which he reports 20 UTTERANCE STRUCTURE events or provides background information. should be kept apart in analysis: Thus, three types of utterances a. Purely metalinguistic speech which largely consists of "rote forms" such as Was ist der Name ?.

E. FRAMEWORK 35 with "the ship" being maintained as the "subject". We would then have a chain from (28-31) where each utterance has the same "subject", this subject being zero except for the first occurrence. But nothing excludes the other analysis. This is probably the right point to stop these considerations and to sum up the major observations. We have been extremely detailed here in order to highlight the manifold problems which one faces in the analysis of learner varieties, that is, of utterances on a very elementary level of organisation, but also to get an idea of the principles behind Vito's way of putting words together.

On the other hand, he is talkative, self-confident, lively and very interested in questions of language. As a consequence, his metalinguistic behaviour is quite elaborate. While retelling the film, he often interrupts himself and asks for a word or expression, mostly with a formulaic question: Was ist der Name? ", Was Name diese? ". Occasionally, he checks whether his own expression is correct: Richtig spreche? ". There are other, less apparent but more interesting traces of his metalinguistic awareness.

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