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Daniel Freudenthal; Fernand Gobet; Julian M. Pine – Language Learning, 2024
This study extended an existing crosslinguistic model of verb-marking errors in children's early multiword speech (MOSAIC) by adding a novel mechanism that defaults to the most frequent form of the verb where this accounts for a high proportion of forms in the input. Our simulations showed that the resulting model not only provides a better…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Native Language, Verbs
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Register, Norma – Language Learning, 1990
Analysis of the responses of Spanish, Chinese, and German learners of English-as-a-Second-Language to English sentences with empty pronominal categories found that, although empty pronouns were pragmatically more natural in finite clauses of Spanish and Chinese than in English or German, only the Spanish subjects had significantly higher mean…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), German
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van Weeren, J.; Theunissen, T. J. J. M. – Language Learning, 1987
A systematic and explicit approach to evaluation of pronunciation is proposed. Generalizability theory was applied in order to comprise all relevant factors in one psychomotor model. French and German pronunciation tests (in Appendix) were devised and evaluated. Common pronunciation problems for native Dutch speakers were incorporated. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Dutch, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns