Sociolinguistic Aspects of Foreigner Talk

Variation in Xenolects (Foreigner Talk)

The way we talk to people who do not understand and speak our language, or more precisely even, who we think do not understand and speak our language, is different from the language we normally use. It has long been a mystery, however, just how, and to what extent, people adapt to the challenges of unequal and restricted communication conditions: There are reports often anecdotal and speculativ...

Contact Situations and Foreigner Talk

Ferguson, C. (1971) first introduces the idea of “foreigner talk” (FT) and examines the grammatical simplicity in FT by indicating the absence of the copula in “grammatical machinery for equational clauses” (for instance, in the case of the Japanese language). Evidences of simplified speech in FT is similar to ‘retarded talk’. And, because it can also be directed at children, it is also referre...

Acoustic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Lenition in Liverpool English

This study concerns the phonological process of lenition occurring in Liverpool English, i.e. Scouse. In particular, we will provide an acoustic analysis of the process, taking into account also some of the classical sociolinguistic variables normally employed in linguistics. Scouse is one of the best known accents of British English. It is traditionally stigmatized, since in England the Scouse...

the effect of consciousness raising of sociolinguistic skills on speaking ability of iranian efl learners

abstract the main purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was any significant difference between the speaking achievement of learners who were trained by means of consciousness raising of sociolinguistic skills and that of learners who were trained without the above mentioned task. the participants of this study consist of 60 intermediate level students participating languag...

Towards a Framework for Comparing Sociolinguistic Aspects of Isolated Language Variety Communities