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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

Tarone, Elaine – Language Learning, 1974
A model of speech perception and production is suggested here which attempts to account for different rates of acquisition of perceptual and productive skill in the second language without assuming the existence of two separate second language grammars. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency

Dulay, Heidi; Burt, Marina – Language Learning, 1974
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language)

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

Carrell, Patricia L. – Language Learning, 1977
The theoretical linguistic distinction between assertion and presupposition was empirically tested with two groups of subjects, young children acquiring English as their first language and adults acquiring English as a second language. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Child Language, English, English (Second Language)