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Faulty Language Selection in Polyglots.
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Shanon, Benny – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1991
Analysis of several types of faulty language selection in polyglots revealed that production errors were not a result of limited vocabulary or language deficiency but rather to interlingual code-switching based on the polyglot's differentiations between dominant language, foreign language, and weak language. (20 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Error Analysis (Language), Interference (Language), Language Processing
Phonological Processing in a Syllable-Timed Language with Pre-Final Stress: Evidence from Spanish Speech Error Data.
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Berg, Thomas – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1991
In-depth analysis of a large corpus of English and German beginning consonant and syllable stress errors revealed that claims regarding these errors can not be replicated for Spanish, leading to the development of hypotheses focusing on Spanish as a pre-final-stress and syllable-timed language. (38 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English