The Psycholinguistic Unity of Language Learning and Language Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5036559 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wayne B Dickerson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-231 |
| Publication date | 1976-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1976.tb00274.x |
| OpenAlex | W2025811204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 6 |
Recent research interest in the performance of second language learners has neglected the area of phonology learning. This report on a longitudinal study shows the viability of using a sociolinguistic model of sound change for studying the process of learning a target language sound system. The model calls for a variability analysis of the phonetic diversity in the learner's speech. The example analysis shows that learners systematically alter their phonetic output in the direction of a particular target. Significantly, second language learners use the same mechanism found to be operative in native language speakers as they participate in the ongoing linguistic change of their speech community. This finding reveals the psycholinguistic unity of the general process of effecting change in phonological systems. Motivations are provided (1) for regarding the learner's performance as the product of a unique language system and (2) for regarding the system as consisting of variable rules. An example of such a rule is given in detail
Cognition · First language · Language acquisition · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Phonological rule · Phonology · Process (computing) · Psycholinguistics · Second-language acquisition · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology
Acquisition of Phonology
The acquisition of /r/ and /l/ by Japanese learners of English
Language Variation in Applied Linguistics
Classroom foreign language learning and language variation
The Role of Perception in Differential Substitution
Segmentals and Global Foreign Accent
Variable Rules in the Acquisition of English Contractions
Acquisition of the Closing Diphthongs /əʊ/ and /eɪ/ in English L2 and Jamaican Creole
Variability in Tense Marking
Variability in Interlanguage Use
Implicational Patterns in Interlanguage Syntax Variation
The Ontogeny Model
Comparative Research on Language Learning
On the Naturalness of Interlanguage Phonological Rules1
Markedness and fossilization in the interlanguage phonology of Brunei English
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1977 - 2015 (39) |
| Highly cited | No |