Sociolinguistic Variation in the Speech of Learners of Chinese as a Second Language

Language Learning

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 366-408

  Li, Xiaoshi ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese as a second language; Chinese morphosyntactic particle; Second language acquisition; Sociolinguistic variation; Sociolinguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954154095     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00560.x     Document Type: Article

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