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Adamson, H. D.; Elliott, Otis Phillip, Jr. – IRAL, 1997
Discusses variation in interlanguage and suggests two hypotheses to explain such variation as multiple internal representations of a form and processing errors. Suggests that second language learners can initially represent new forms as prototype schemas, and that such non-discrete representations are a third source of variation in interlanguage.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar