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<p style="text-align:justify;">Sankoff&nbsp;et al. (1997) indicated in their research on discourse markers (DMs) used by&nbsp;anglophones in Montreal that the mastery of DMs is a good indicator of the&nbsp;non-native speakers’ integration into the linguistic community. As DMs,&nbsp;especially the informal ones, are not taught explicitly in language classes,&nbsp;their acquisition could only be fulfilled by extracurricular contact with&nbsp;native speakers. Despite fruitful works done on DMs in both native and&nbsp;non-native speech, to our knowledge, most of them deal with only one or several&nbsp;DMs at a time without providing a comparable complete list of frequency of DMs&nbsp;in non-native speech. In this article, by exploring the data from 29 semi-guided&nbsp;sociolinguistic interviews conducted in English with non-native speakers in the&nbsp;US, we established a list of frequency of 72 DMs employed by Chinese L1&nbsp;speakers learning English. By conducting statistical tests, we examined the&nbsp;impact of some extralinguistic factors relevant to non-native speakers in their&nbsp;use of DMs. Our results showed that gender and social network are the two most&nbsp;influential factors for informal DMs, while the age factor seems to be the&nbsp;weakest for all DMs.</p>

Acquisition of English Discourse Markers by Chinese L1 Speakers Learning English in the US: Frequency and Social impact

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