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Dr. Sonomura's book is the first study that I know of that compares the errors made by speakers of an English-based creole (in this case Hawaiian Creole English) with those made by students of ESL (English as a second language) as they learn to write standard English. It should be of interest both to pidgin/creole studies and to applied linguistics concerned with ESL, and will surely serve as a stimulus to further research. It is also ground-breaking in the emphasis that it gives to idiomaticity (native-like wordings). Although the importance of idiomaticity in speech and writing is gradually receiving increased recognition, it is still customarily treated as peripheral to grammar. I know of no other study of this scope that deals directly with the problem of idiomaticity in learning to write standard English...In sum, the book should be of interest to a broad spectrum of linguists. (George W. Grace, University of Hawaii at Manoa) Marion Sonomura's study is unique... It explores an area that is seldom treated in the context of 'normal' languages, let alone that of creoles as well, and seeks to describe in detail sentence-types which, while not necessarily ungrammatical, still create an impression of 'foreignness' in the ears of standard-dialect speakers. In so doing, Dr. Sonomura has widened the scope of language studies and produced a volume that should be useful to any reader of any language. (Derek Bickerton, University of Hawaii)

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The Author: Marion Okawa Sonomura received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Hawaii in May 1993. Her studies have emphasized idiomaticity and formulaic language, written language, bilingualism, and pidgins and creoles. She now teaches at the Brigham Young University - Hawaii Campus in Laie, Hawaii.

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