Acquisition of the Internal and External Constraints of Variable Schwa Deletion by French Immersion Students

Autor/inn/en	Uritescu, Dorin; Mougeon, Raymond; Rehner, Katherine; Nadasdi, Terry
Titel	Acquisition of the Internal and External Constraints of Variable Schwa Deletion by French Immersion Students
Quelle	In: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 42 (2004) 4, S.349-364 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0019-042X
DOI	10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.349
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Native Speakers; French; Language Variation; Syllables; Immersion Programs; Sociolinguistics; Interviews; High School Students; Phonetic Analysis; Context Effect; Contrastive Linguistics; Pronunciation; Second Language Learning; Oral Language; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Muttersprachler; Französisch; Sprachenvielfalt; Silbe; Immersionsprogramm; Soziolinguistik; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Phonetic method; Lautanalytische Methode; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Aussprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Frankreich
Abstract	This article is one among a series of studies on the acquisition of patterns of linguistic variation observable in the speech of native speakers of Canadian French by French immersion (FI) students. The present study is centered on deletion of the central vowel schwa, a widespread feature of casual spoken French. In this study, FI students are compared with same age native speakers of Ontario French. Our study has arrived at the following main findings: (I) Fl students delete schwa much less frequently than do the speakers of Ontario French; (II) FI students observe the same phonetic constraints that influence schwa deletion in native Ontario French; (III) FI students do not observe the constraint of topic formality which is observable in native Ontario French; and (IV) FI students who have had extracurricular contacts with native speakers of French display higher rates of schwa deletion than the FI students who have not had such contacts. (Contains 6 tables and 3 footnotes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10