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Peer reviewedVigil, Neddy A.; Oller, John W. – Language Learning, 1976
A cybernetic model of factors involved in the fossilization of grammatical and lexical forms in learner grammars is offered. A distinction is made between affective and cognitive dimensions of a multidimensional channel of human communication; and the effect of expected and unexpected feedback on these two dimensions is discussed. (Author/POP)
Descriptors: Conditioning, Cybernetics, Interlanguage, Language Research
