Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Robert Bayley, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li
[Studies in Language Variation, 28] 2022. xx, 365 pp.
Robert Bayley
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert Bayley plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation
Edited by Robert Bayley and Dennis R. Preston
[Studies in Bilingualism, 10] 1996. xix, 317 pp.
Subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism
Articles
2022 Chapter 2. An investigation of the use of the multifunctional particle ‑ le by second language learners of Mandarin Chinese Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li (eds.), pp. 15–42 | Chapter
The most widely studied aspect marker in Chinese is ‑le. In addition to functioning as a perfective aspect marker to indicate action completion, it can also serve as a sentence final particle to indicate a currently relevant state. It is obligatory in some situations but optional in others. And,… read more
2022 Chapter 1. Variation and second language acquisition: Recent developments and future directions Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
In addition to introducing the main themes of this volume, the chapter provides a brief overview of recent developments in variationist studies of second language acquisition (SLA), including work on perception. We suggest that the type of work included in this volume, which focuses on a range… read more
2018 Lexical frequency and syntactic variation: Subject pronoun use in Mandarin Chinese Asia-Pacific Language Variation 4:2, pp. 135–160 | Article
With the rise of exemplar theory, the role of lexical frequency in language variation has been the object of considerable study. Recently, Erker and Guy (2012) extended the analysis of frequency to morphosyntactic variation and examined the role of frequency in variation between null and overt… read more
2017 Lexical frequency and morphosyntactic variation: Evidence from U.S. Spanish Spanish in Context 14:3, pp. 413–439 | Article
The role of frequency in language variation has received a great deal of attention in recent years, especially in phonology. Recently, Erker and Guy (2012) extended the analysis of frequency to morphosyntactic variation and examined frequency effects in variation between null and overt subject… read more
1996 Competing Constraints on Variation in the Speech of Adult Chinese Learners of English Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation, Bayley, Robert and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 97 ff. | Article
1996 Preface Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation, Bayley, Robert and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. xiii ff. | Miscellaneous
1996 Appendix: VARBRUL Analysis for Second Language Acquisition Research Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation, Bayley, Robert and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 253 ff. | Miscellaneous