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Birdsong, David; And Others – 1984
Three studies comparing the respective roles of interlanguage universals and natural language transfer in determining learners' judgments of grammaticality used college students of French in their second, third, and fourth semesters as subjects. In the first experiment, the subjects were exposed to both grammatical and four types of ungrammatical…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, French, Interlanguage
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Kabanova, O. YA. – Instructional Science, 1985
Discussion of Gal'perin's theory of step-by-step formation of mental actions includes descriptions of experimental applications of this activity approach to teaching foreign languages. Constructing and understanding sentences are discussed, and activities for the construction of a sentence and the orientation base of action (OBA) for German,…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Audiolingual Skills, Case (Grammar), Deep Structure
Derbyshire, Desmond C., Ed. – 1985
Preliminary versions of the papers from the 1985 Summer Institute of Linguistics presented at the University of North Dakota session include: "Referential Distance and Discourse Structure in Yagua" (Thomas E. Payne); "A Note on Ergativity, S', and S'' in Karitiana" (Daniel Everett); "Some Aspects of Zapotecan Clausal…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, African Languages, American Indian Languages, Discourse Analysis