caa a22 4500 378928155 CHVBK 20180305123622.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041015xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.349 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.349 Acquisition of the internal and external constraints of variable schwa deletion by French immersion students [Elektronische Daten] [Dorin Uritescu, Raymond Mougeon, Katherine Rehner, Terry Nadasdi] This article is one among a series of studies on the acquisition of patterns of linguistic variation observable in the speech of native speakers of Canadian French by French immersion (FI) students. The present study is centred on deletion of the central vowel schwa, a widespread feature of casual spoken French. In this study, FI students are compared with same age native speakers of Ontario French. Our study has arrived at the following main findings: (i) FI students delete schwa much less frequently than do the speakers of Ontario French; (ii) FI students observe the same phonetic constraints that influence schwa deletion in native Ontario French; (iii) FI students do not observe the constraint of topic formality which is observable in native Ontario French; and (iv) FI students who have had extracurricular contacts with native speakers of French display higher rates of schwa deletion than the FI students who have not had such contacts. © Walter de Gruyter Psycholinguistics nationallicence Language teaching theory & methods nationallicence Social groups & communities nationallicence Uritescu Dorin aut Mougeon Raymond aut Rehner Katherine aut Nadasdi Terry aut IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching Walter de Gruyter 42/4(2004-10-15), 349-364 0019-042X 42:4<349 2004 42 iral https://doi.org/10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.349 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.349 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Uritescu Dorin aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mougeon Raymond aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rehner Katherine aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nadasdi Terry aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching Walter de Gruyter 42/4(2004-10-15), 349-364 0019-042X 42:4<349 2004 42 iral CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter