Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Transfer in Phonology. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 12 / Richard W. Schmidt.

This article investigates a specific foreign language (FL) learning problem, the substitution of /s,z/ for English unvoiced and voiced "th" by native speakers of Egyptian Arabic, and concludes that the facts are better explained in terms of language transfer than by an explanation in terms of inhere...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schmidt, Richard W.
Corporate Author:	Ontario Inst. for Studies in Education, Toronto. Bilingual Education Project
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1977.
Subjects:	Arabic. Contrastive Linguistics. English (Second Language) Interference (Language) Language Instruction. Language Usage. Language Variation. Linguistic Borrowing. Second Language Learning. Sociolinguistics. Egyptian Arabic Reports, Research.
Genre:	Reports, Research.
Physical Description:	18 pages
Format:	Microfilm Book

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