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IDIOSYNCRATIC DIALECTS AND ERROR ANALYSIS (Part 2- end)

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 [...]