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Marshall, Chloe R. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
The study by Tamburelli, Jones, Gobet, and Pine (2012; henceforth TJGP) is a very welcome addition to the body of work concerning nonword repetition in typical development. TJGP go beyond previous work in considering three syllabic positions--onset, nucleus, and coda--with the aim of investigating how the positional role of phonemes within the…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Phonology, Repetition
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Quible, Zane K.; Griffin, Frances – Journal of Education for Business, 2007
Business professionals and instructors often view writing skills as one of the most important qualifications that employees should possess. However, many business employees, including recent college graduates, have serious writing deficiencies, especially in their ability to use standard English. As a result, American businesses spend billions of…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, College Graduates, Writing Skills, English
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Clahsen, Harald – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992
Found dissociations between regular and irregular inflectional processes in the formation of English past tenses, German noun plurals, and German participles. Children's inflectional errors include using regular patterns for irregular forms. Some linguistic processes, such as forming compound words, are sensitive to the distinction between regular…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Error Patterns, German
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Courtade, Ida – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 1996
The defining of colors is a very subjective topic and results in many misunderstandings, especially in translation from one language to another. The number and significance of color adjectives vary from culture to culture. The goal of this article is to explain the origins of such variations and to discuss examples of common translation errors and…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Art, Color, Cultural Differences
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You, Seok-Hoon – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 1999
Discusses the significance of causation/reasoning patterns in Korean. Presents crucial examples of acquisition errors of the patterns collected from students learning Korean as a foreign language and proposes an alternative explanation and analysis of these patterns.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Patterns, Korean
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Mitton, Roger – Reading Teacher, 1986
Notes the existence of a collection of computer-readable files containing misspellings of English words, which is now available to researchers from the Oxford Text Archive in England. Describes the content of the collection. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computers, Elementary Education, English