Basic variet(ies) and initial stages in a second language

Cecilia Andorno; Sandra Benazzo

doi:10.1075/lia.00031.and

August 17, 2026Language Interaction and AcquisitionOpen Access

Basic variet(ies) and initial stages in a second language

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To review the developmental stages of naturalistic second language acquisition in adult immigrants, focusing on the emergence and structure of basic and post-basic learner varieties.
Longitudinal oral corpus analysis of adult immigrants acquiring a second language naturalistically through immersion across ten distinct source-target language pairs.
Adult naturalistic learners systematically progress through pre-basic, basic, and post-basic developmental varieties characterized by distinct linguistic repertoires.
The Basic Variety functions as an effective linguistic system governed by cross-linguistic semantic-pragmatic principles, such as agent-first and focus-last organization.
Progression to post-basic varieties is marked by the acquisition of verbal morphology and morphosyntactic marking of finiteness to restructure utterances.

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Longitudinal linguistic analysis reveals structured developmental stages in adult immigrant learners, indicating universal functional principles govern early naturalistic language acquisition.

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