SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LINGUISTIC VARIATION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Preface -- References -- Variationist Perspectiveson Second Language Acquisition -- 1. A Brief History of Language Variation Study -- 2. Two Models of Variation -- 3. Recent Trends -- 4.0 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Factors Affecting the Productionof Word-initial Consonantsin a Second Language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Markedness in Second Language Acquisition of Consonant Clusters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix A: Word list -- Appendix B: Text -- Competing Constraints on Variationin the Speech of AdultChinese Learners of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The -t/d Variable -- 3. Methods -- 4. Results -- 5. Acquisition and Production: The Interaction of Competing Constraints -- 6. Functionalist and Formal Explanations of -t/d Deletion in Native English Dialects -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Reading Passage -- Tense Marking in the English of Spanish-speaking Adolescents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research Design -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- Note -- References -- Form-Function Relations in Articles in English Interlanguage -- 1. Introduction: Acquiring the English Article System -- 2. Research Questions -- 3. Article Usage in Interlanguage -- 4. Hypotheses -- 5. VARBRUL Analysis and Results -- 6. Conclusions: Making Sense of English Articles -- Author's Note -- Notes -- References -- Variation in French Interlanguage: A Longitudinal Study of Sociolinguistic Competence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Negation in French. -- 3. Variability in French Negation.

4. Ne Deletion in Non-Native Speaker French -- 5. A Longitudinal Variation Study of Interlanguage -- 6. Design of the Study -- 7. Results -- 8. Discussion -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Disentangling Language Acquisition from Language Variation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Treatment of Variation -- 3. Four Models of Negation Variation -- 4. Logistic Regression Analysis -- 5. Evaluating Models -- 6. Data Reduction and Coding -- 7.0 Results -- 8. Evaluating Alternative Models -- 9. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Some Notes on the Role of Misperception in Language Learning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three Strategies for Research on Language Learning -- 3. The Asymmetry of Production and Perception -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- VARBRUL Analysis for Second Language Acquisition Research -- 1. The Nature of Variable Data -- 2. VARBRUL as an Analytical and Heuristic Tool -- 3. Running VARBRUL on the Macintosh and on the PC -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.