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Zemb, J. M. – Langages, 1975
Questions the effectiveness of contrastive linguistics in measuring the difference between two languages and therefore in predicting the ease or difficulty of acquisition from one to the other. The simplicity of a language is not objectively quantifiable since it is measured as relative to other languages. (Text is in French.) (TL)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods
Download full textOller, John W., Jr. – 1971
The ability to anticipate elements in sequence is the foundation of all language skills. Because of its naturally high redundancy, it is almost always possible in the normal use of language to partially predict what will come next in a sequence of elements. The central feature of language processing is expectancy for successive elements. A very…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Expectation, Language
