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INTRODUCTION

Organizing Principles of Learner Varieties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2001

Clive Perdue
Affiliation:
Université Paris VIII and UPRESA 7023, CNRS, France

Abstract

This special issue presents results from comparative research into the principles constraininglearner varieties (interlanguages) in use. The contributors analyze the oral production of complexverbal tasks (descriptions, instructions, narratives, retellings) in L2 Dutch, English, French,German, and Italian, concentrating on the way information from different semantic domains isorganized across utterances (referential movement) and on a major aspect of the interactionbetween utterance-level and discourse-level constraints, namely, scope phenomena. We hope theresults presented here will provide insights into the structural and communicative factorspushing, or hampering, L2 acquisition and will further our understanding of how the organizingprinciples interact at different levels of discourse production, be it in L1 or L2.

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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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