The identification and analysis of interference between languages in contact has traditionally been a central aspect of the study of bilingualism. The intrusion of features of one language into another in the speech of bilinguals has been studied at the levels of phonology, morphology and syntax. The systems of the contact languages themselves have sometimes [...]
In the case of idiosyncratic dialects, some of the rules required to account for the dialect are not members of the set of rules of any social dialect; they are peculiar to the language of that speaker. All idiosyncratic dialects have this characteristic in common that some of the rules required to account for them [...]
What has come to be known as Error Analysis has to do with the investigation of the language of second language learners. It takes the point of view that the language of such a learner, or perhaps certain groupings of learners, is a special sort of dialect. This is based on two considerations: firstly, any [...]
This section deals with the methodology of error analyses, particularly as it is applied to the analysis of the adult learner’s syntax in a second language. Corder presents a model based on a distinction between an idiosyncratic dialect (the learner’s personal, unstable, developing grammar) and a social dialect (the target language which is the dialect [...]