Contact Situation and Foreigner Talk - Japanese language

Wong, Leei

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Contact Situation and Foreigner Talk - Japanese language

Authors

Wong, Leei

Abstract

This study explores the nature of foreigner talk (FT) which occurs in the naturalistic conversation between a native speaker of Japanese and a non-native speaker, to find out if the characteristics match those proposed by Skoutarides (1980) or Long (1992).