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Peer reviewedPhillips, Betty S.; Bouma, Lowell – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
An experiment is reported comparing the pluralization patterns exhibited by American college students studying German with those of adult and child native speakers of German. Respondents' pluralization of 30 nonsense words did not reveal significant interference between English and German in this regard. (PMJ)
Descriptors: College Students, German, Interference (Language), Language Research
