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Peer reviewedBertkau, 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
Peer reviewedZydatiss, Wolfgang – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1974
Supports and expands upon S. P. Corder's theory that all the utterances of a language learner are well-formed and appropriate. (PMP)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Interference (Language), Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedOller, 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
Peer reviewedPaterson, Kevin B.; Liversedge, Simon P.; Rowland, Caroline; Filik, Ruth – Cognition, 2003
Three studies investigated the comprehension of sentences containing the focus particle "only" by children and adults. Contrary to previous findings, two of the studies found that young children made errors predominantly by failing to process contrast information rather than errors in which they failed to use syntactic information to…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension
Download full textCancino, Herlinda; And Others – 1974
Three hypotheses are examined in relation to English copula and negative utterances produced by three native Spanish speakers. The hypotheses are interference, interlanguage and L1=L2, which states that acquisition of a language by second language learners will parallel acquisiton of the same language by first language learners. The results of the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Interference (Language)
Bowerman, Melissa – 1974
This is a study of the kinds of processes involved in learning the meaning of individual lexical items, and in particular how the acquisition of lexical meaning is related to the cognitive structuring of events on the one hand and the ability to produce syntactic paraphrases of a word's meaning and other related constructions on the other. It is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Componential Analysis, Deep Structure
