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Slabakova, Roumyana – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Investigates the compounding parameter in the second language (L2) Spanish interlanguage of English and French native speakers in light of the subset principle and its predictions for the process of L2 development. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English, French, Interlanguage, Language Research
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Butler, Yuko Goto – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Addresses the difficulties second language learners have using articles properly by examining the metalinguistic knowledge of the English article system that learners employ when selecting articles in a given situation. Attempts to better understand the process of "making sense" of the English article system by learners who are at different stages…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Japanese
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Zobl, Helmut – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1984
Investigates whether the Wave Model of linguistic change can furnish a valid idealization for the patterning of variation in interlanguage systems and a scale for determining degree of naturalness. Data from 162 French-speaking adult learners were used to analyze the variability in the evolution of the English possessive determiners…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language), French
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Eckman, Fred R. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2004
This article surveys the development of second language (L2) phonology over the last 40-50 years. Research in this area has grown from analyzing learners' errors in terms of Contrastive Analysis to proposals explaining L2 sound patterns in terms of constraints on interlanguage grammar. Although native language transfer has endured as one source of…
Descriptors: Phonology, Second Language Learning, Phonemes, Language Acquisition
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Eckman, Fred R. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1985
Theoretical assumptions and consequences of the Markedness Differential Hypothesis (MDH) are compared with the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis, and empirical evidence favoring the former is reviewed. Pedagogical implications of the MDH, a strategy for interlanguage-intervention, and several problems revealed in the literature are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Strategies, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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Tarone, Elaine – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Ellis's target article suggests that language processing is based on frequency and probabilistic knowledge and that language learning is implicit. These findings are consistent with those of SLA researchers working within a variationist framework (e.g., Tarone, 1985; Bayley & Preston, 1996). This paper provides a brief overview of this research…
Descriptors: Creativity, Language Variation, Language Processing, Social Environment
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Becker, Angelika; Veenstra, Tonjes – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
In traditional classifications of languages by inflectional subsystems, both creole languages and the results of untutored SLA (interlanguages) are classified as isolating. We focus on remnants of verbal inflectional morphology in French-related creoles and ask: (a) Can the properties of verbal morphology be attributed to SLA, and (b) what does…
Descriptors: Creoles, Verbs, Morphology (Languages), French
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Young, Richard – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1988
Suggests that interlanguage morphology research contradictions have occurred as a result of a descriptively inadequate variation model. This assertion provides the basis for proposing and applying a multivariate model (acquisition stage, linguistic environment, and communicative redundancy) to an analysis of native Mandarin Chinese speakers'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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Eckman, Fred R. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1991
Testing of the validity of two implicational universals regarding consonant clusters, involving the analysis of the interlanguage of native-speaking Chinese, Japanese, and Korean students of English-as-a-Second-Language, was strongly supportive of the two universals, suggesting the possibility that primary language universals hold also for…
Descriptors: Chinese, Consonants, English (Second Language), Interlanguage
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Carlisle, Robert S. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1998
Reports the findings of a longitudinal study in interlanguage phonology examining the production of two structures in a markedness relationship, bilateral and trilateral onsets, the latter being more marked than the former. The study specifically tests the Interlanguage Structure Conformity Hypothesis by measuring the acquisition of the onsets in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Linguistic Theory
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Archibald, John – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1998
Addresses a number of issues that have to do with nature of mental representation of an interlanguage grammar. Major focus is on necessity of positing some sort of hierarchical constituent structure to account for what second-language learners do in their phonology. The purpose is to show the utility of invoking a theory of abstract phonological…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Grammar, Interlanguage