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Hsin, Ai-li Cindy – 2003
Run-on sentences are common mistakes made by Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. One type of these errors, with the structure of an expletive subject "there" and a verb "to be" at the beginning of the sentence, is persistent and not easy to detect and correct. This study proposes that this type of error…
Descriptors: Chinese, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
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Treiman, Rebecca; Richmond-Welty, E. Daylene; Tincoff, Ruth – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Argues that an important type of child knowledge about letters is knowledge of the phonological structure of the letters' names in English. Concludes that learning the alphabet forms the basis for generalizations about the structure of letter names. (22 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Error Analysis (Language), Letters (Alphabet)
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Savoy, Jacques – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
Discusses suffix stripping algorithms used in information retrieval to cluster words derived from a common root under the same stem, and proposes a suffixing algorithm for French which uses grammatical categories to enhance the stemming process. An evaluation of the algorithm is discussed, and an analysis of errors is described. (17 references)…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Methods