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Zemb, J. M. – Langages, 1975
Questions the effectiveness of contrastive linguistics in measuring the difference between two languages and therefore in predicting the ease or difficulty of acquisition from one to the other. The simplicity of a language is not objectively quantifiable since it is measured as relative to other languages. (Text is in French.) (TL)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods
