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Peer reviewedLepetit, Daniel – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1985
A study of the order of acquisition and fossilization of several French forms by anglophone students focused on the intonative aspect of interlanguage and the transfer of learning from one language to another. (MSE)
Descriptors: French, Interlanguage, Intonation, Language Research
Peer reviewedKolata, Gina – Science, 1987
Discusses prevailing ideas of how children learn language and addresses the argument of rules versus analogies in learning to form the past tense of verbs. Cites cases involving connectionist models. (ML)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research
Download full textLyytinen, Paula – 1984
A study of the use of the complex Finnish morphological rule system in 45 children, aged 20-24 months, examined the children's inflection of nouns and verbs in speech characteristic of everyday Finnish. Analysis of the correct, unanswered, and incorrect test items found six classes of errors, which were then examined for clues to the underlying…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Patterns, Expressive Language, Finnish
