In 1983, when I attended my first linguistics course, taught by one Professor Rüdiger Zimmermann, Joan Bybee and Carol Moder published an article on „Morphological classes as natural categories“ in Language. In this article they argued that prototype theory can be applied to morphological classes, in particular ablaut classes in English verb morphology. Their experimental results indicated that...

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Interlanguage is the most fruitful issue in field of second language acquisition. In interlanguage phase, Indonesian learners English tend to alternate between two forms features express same function where a variation will be exhibited mark variable linguistic function. Variability phonology interesting subject investigate based on markedness differential hypothesis theory. This study aimed at...

Portuguese is a less resourced language in what concerns foreign language learning. Aiming to inform a module of a system designed to support scientific written production of Spanish native speakers learning Portuguese, we developed an approach to automatically generate a lexicon of wrong words, reproducing language transfer errors made by such foreign learners. Each item of the artificially ge...

The usual source of crosshnguistic influence in the interlanguage of a person learning a first foreign language (L2) is quite obviously his/her LI Pinpointing the source of crosshnguistic influences in the interlanguage of a multilingual speaker is less straightforward The main source of crosshnguistic influence m the L3 of a speaker is not automatically, as the present study shows, the LI of t...

Anaptyxis-prothesis asymmetries, common in loanword adaptation and interlanguage phonology, are characterized by vowel insertion before sibilant + stop clusters, but into obstruent + sonorant clusters. I propose that such patterns reflect an epenthesis strategy in which the site of epenthesis is chosen to maximize perceptual similarity between input and output. Experimental evidence in support ...