Researches on the animals demonstrated that parrots were capable of articulating words and even responded to human’s speeches, while chimps and other animal, such as dolphins that had been also researched, could not do this. However, no matter how much the animals made progress in showing that they understood ‘language’ and in some cases were [...]
Only human kind is blessed with ‘language capacity’ ( the Language Acquisition Device or LAD), an essentially unique quality. At least, this is what Noam Avram Chomsky, one of the most leading theoretical linguist in history, has proclaimed. Chomsky’s opinion on the human’s language is as quoted below. When we study language, we are approaching [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The first factor is language transfer. Sentences in the target language may exhibit interference from the mother tongue. This is of course was considered to be the major, but not the only, source of difficulty by linguists doing constractive analysis. Interference analysis tends to be from the deviant sentence back to the mother tongue. Constractive [...]