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Peer reviewedMellow, J. Dean – Second Language Research, 1996
Critiques Pienemann and Johnston (1987), an influential model of the acquisition of English as a second language (ESL) morphology. The article demonstrates that their proposals are incompatible with syntactic analyses of word formation and emphasizes that second language researchers must ensure that models of second language acquisition are…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedMellow, J. Dean; Cumming, Alister – Applied Linguistics, 1994
Assesses two apparently contradictory factors that may affect the acquisition of grammatical concord in a second language: (1) efficient deletion of redundant elements; and (2) facilitation or priming through repeated marking of grammatical information. The results of a study of written compositions by French and Japanese learners of English…
Descriptors: College Students, Efficiency, English (Second Language), Grammar
