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An Analysis of English Learner Speech

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Bertkau, Jana Svoboda – Language Learning, 1974

An analysis of speech samples collected from adult ESL students revealed recurring variants indicating that learners attempt to simplify the target language in several ways. A universal process of simplification in language learning is postulated to account for the recurrence of the same variants in different learner idiolects. (Author/KM)

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels

Simplification as the Goal of Phonological Processes in Child Speech

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Oller, D. Kimbrough – Language Learning, 1974

It is argued here that childhood phonological errors systematically simplify the child's inventory of phonetic elements and strings. (Author/KM)

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns