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Maratsos, Michael; Kuczaj, Stanley A. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
This article reviews and criticizes Fay's particular transformational descriptions as implausible. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Mayer, Judith Winzemer; And Others – Cognition, 1978
The basic-operations hypothesis predicts that for any transformation which is composed of more than one basic operation, there exists a class of errors in children's speech correctly analyzed as failure to apply one (or more) of the operations specified in the adult formulation of the rule. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Goldsmith, John – Journal of Linguistics, 1994
The author responds to issues raised in comments about a previous article, and defends his position of discussing Firthian insights from a generative point of view. (11 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Fundamental Concepts, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Hopkins, Edwin A. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1975
Examines errors made by English speakers learning German and, in attempting to find sources for them, contrasts certain phenomena of German and English grammar. The phenomena in question are cleft sentences and the treatment of case. (TL)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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Ogden, Richard; Local, John K. – Journal of Linguistics, 1994
Reviews the comments of Goldsmith on Firthian Prosodic Analysis (FPA) and its relationship with Autosegmental Phonology (AP). It is argued that AP has maintained the insights of FP while providing additional analytic possibilities. The authors examine Goldsmith's misinterpretations and clarifies the characteristics of FPA. (94 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Language Patterns, Language Research
Choi, Jae-Oh – 1984
A contrastive analysis of English and Korean sentences, including error analysis, is presented. The study focuses on word order, comparing the languages' similarities and differences with the objective of understanding better how the structural differences inhibit the progress of the Korean learner of English. The English data are derived from…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English, English (Second Language)