caa a22 4500 378928090 CHVBK 20180305123622.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041015xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.303 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.303 Variation in the group and the individual: Evidence from second language acquisition [Elektronische Daten] [Robert Bayley, Juliet Langman] This article examines the relationship between group and individual patterns of variation in one area of the grammar: verbal morphology. The results of studies of the acquisition of English and Hungarian verbal morphology by Chinese learners show that individual patterns of variation closely match group patterns on several dimensions. Multivariate analysis shows that frequency and perceptual saliency affect verb marking by all Chinese acquirers of English and Hungarian in a similar manner. In addition, separate quantitative analyses of individual speakers show that all the Chinese learners of English considered here are approximately twice as likely to mark perfective verbs for past tense as to mark imperfective verbs. These convergent results suggest that for first order constraints such as aspect, perceptual salience, and frequency, individual results do in fact match group patterns and that we are justified from an empirical and a theoretical viewpoint in reporting group results in studies of second language acquisition (SLA). © Walter de Gruyter Psycholinguistics nationallicence Language teaching theory & methods nationallicence Social groups & communities nationallicence Bayley Robert aut Langman Juliet aut IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching Walter de Gruyter 42/4(2004-10-15), 303-318 0019-042X 42:4<303 2004 42 iral https://doi.org/10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.303 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.303 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bayley Robert aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Langman Juliet aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching Walter de Gruyter 42/4(2004-10-15), 303-318 0019-042X 42:4<303 2004 42 iral CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter