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Transformations, Basic Operations and Language Acquisition
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Mayer, Judith Winzemer; And Others – Cognition, 1978
The basic-operations hypothesis predicts that for any transformation which is composed of more than one basic operation, there exists a class of errors in children's speech correctly analyzed as failure to apply one (or more) of the operations specified in the adult formulation of the rule. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition
A Reevaluation of the Basic Operations Hypothesis.
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Goodluck, Helen; Solan, Lawrence – Cognition, 1979
If the basic operations hypothesis (EJ 184 227) is interpreted as a general principle governing acquisition of all movement rules, it may obscure the fact that children distinguish between unbounded and local rules. Error patterns support this distinction, lending credence to theories with separate status for the two rule types. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition, Learning Theories