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Robert, Jean-Michel – IRAL, 1989
Characteristics of language production shared by interlanguage and agrammatism, a linguistic symptom of aphasia, are discussed, and it is proposed that the two constitute a reduced system within the language, derived from the language's conceptual system. (MSE)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Applied Linguistics, Concept Formation, Grammar
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Ross, Steven – Second Language Research, 1994
Examined two phenomena in the acquisition of second-language syllable structure among Japanese students of English as a foreign language: (1) a preference for open syllables, as manifest in paragoge; and (2) a developmental process of final segment apocopation. Results suggest that paragogic epenthesis is conditioned by a syllable structure…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Japanese
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Robison, Richard E. – Applied Linguistics, 1995
This article examined the aspect hypothesis, which asserts that verb inflections in early interlanguage systems function primarily as markers of lexical aspect independent of the target language. A study of interviews conducted with 26 Puerto Rican college students grouped into 4 proficiency levels found that the association of inflections with…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Interlanguage
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Medgyes, Peter – ELT Journal, 1992
Challenges two trends that have emerged in English language teaching. One trend suggests that researchers attention should be focused on the learner rather than on the teacher. The other trend attempts to get rid of the native speaker versus nonnative speaker delineation among English teachers, offering various alternative terms and concepts. (18…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Language Teachers
Christie, Katrien and Lantolf, James P. – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1992
Reports on grammaticality judgments by early learners of a second language (Italian). The data, contrary to what might be assumed, point to no relationship between intuition and performance for L2 Learners. Data concerning advanced learners may prove to be more valid. (34 references) (LET)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Interlanguage, Italian
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Montrul, Silvina – Second Language Research, 1999
Investigates whether intermediate Turkish-speaking and English-speaking learners of Spanish know which unaccusative verbs alternate in transitivity and which ones do not, and whether they find causative errors natural with intransitive verbs. Results confirm similar findings to those reported in English interlanguage and first-language acquisition…
Descriptors: English, Error Patterns, Grammar, Interlanguage
Lee, Eun-Joo – Journal of Japan-Korea Association of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Longitudinally investigated the development of interlanguage by two Korean speakers of English to better understand the second-language acquisition process. In particular it tested the aspect hypothesis that asserts that verb inflections in early interlanguage systems function primarily as markers of lexical aspect. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Interlanguage, Korean
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Suh, Jae-suk – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 1999
Presenting four types of evidence, this article argues that grammatical competence should not be a subcomponent of communicative competence in second-language instruction, but have a separate status. Focuses on the critical role of grammatical competence in the overall development of target-language proficiency. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Interlanguage, Language Proficiency
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Broselow, Ellen; Chen, Su-I; Wang, Chilin – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1998
Discusses the simplification of forms ending in obstruents by native speakers of Mandarin, in particular two effects that are not obviously motivated by either the native- or the target-language grammars: a tendency to devoice final voiced obstruents and a tendency to maximize the number of bisyllabic forms in the output. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Grammar, Interlanguage
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Dekydtspotter, Laurent – Second Language Research, 2001
From the perspective of Fodor's (1983) theory of mental organization and Chomsky's (1995) Minimalist theory of grammar, considers constraints on the interpretation of French-type and English-type cardinality interrogatives in the task of sentence comprehension, as a function of a universal parsing algorithm and hypotheses embodied in a French-type…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Epistemology, French
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Mesthrie, R. – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1999
Examines one sub-community within the continuum of English usage in South Africa, a group of male migrant workers in Cape Town who retain close ties with their original homes in the Transkei. Characterizes their interlanguage English and presents a developmental analysis of negation in this interlanguage, in ways that are uncommon in new English…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Code Switching (Language), Foreign Countries, Interlanguage
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Dekydtspotter, Laurent; Sprouse, Rex A. – Second Language Research, 2001
Addresses the issue of second language (L2) epistemology assuming Chomsky's (1995) discussion of the place of universal grammar in mental design. Discusses interaction of adjectival restriction in interrogative expressions, contrasts plausibility of nativist and non-nativist approaches to the etiology of such grammatical knowledge, an reports…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Cognitive Processes, English, Epistemology
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Larsen-Freeman, Diane – Language Learning, 1998
Responds to a previous article that suggests the second-language-acquisition acquisition field has failed to realize academic respectability. Offers an overview of some of the more positive advances in the discipline. Concludes by calling for a whole systems approach to the study of second language acquisition. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Interlanguage, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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Dekydtspotter, Laurent; Sprouse, Rex A.; Anderson, Bruce – Language Acquisition, 1997
This study documents the sensitivity of English-French interlanguage to the process-result distinction with respect to the licensing of multiple postnominal genitives, despite a lack of direct positive or negative evidence for this distinction in the input. Documentation argues that the Universal Grammar-governed map between syntactic structures…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, French, Grammar
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Garcia Lecumberri, M. L. – International Journal of English Studies, 2001
Studies the possible influence of Spanish on native speakers of that language during their assessment of marked iconicity in English. Looks at discrimination by Spanish learners of English of information focus as signaled by placement of nuclear tones in sentence initial and medial positions. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interference (Language), Interlanguage, Phonetics
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