Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Transfer in Phonology. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 12 [electronic resource] / 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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Schmidt, Richard W.
Corporate Author:	Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Bilingual Education Project
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : 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.