UNLABELLED This review investigates empirical evidence for different theoretical proposals regarding the retreat from overgeneralization errors in three domains: word learning (e.g., *doggie to refer to all animals), morphology [e.g., *spyer, *cooker (one who spies/cooks), *unhate, *unsqueeze, *sitted; *drawed], and verb argument structure [e.g., *Don't giggle me (c.f. Don't make me giggle); *D...

A central question in language acquisition is how children build linguistic representations that allow them to generalize verbs from one construction to another (e.g., The boy gave a present to the girl → The boy gave the girl a present), whilst appropriately constraining those generalizations to avoid non-adultlike errors (e.g., I said no to her → *I said her no). Although a consensus is emerg...

This study investigated the erroneous use of high-frequency verb TAKE by Chinese college learners English as a foreign language (EFL), aiming to identify similarities and differences between EFL learners, aimed at finding out more effective ways for teaching researching verbs. Corpus-based Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis Error were carried in present study, with subcorpora ST4 ST6 CLEC (Chin...

This research aimed to find out the types of sentence structure errors in English paragraphs written by tertiary students and factors causing errors. employed an explanatory mixed-method design. Fourth-semester from department IAIN Curup were engaged as subjects this research. Positivism-governed document analyses constructivism-based interviews conducted solicit data desired. The quantitative ...

In this paper, we investigate the processes by which groups of primary and secondary school students from two Francophone contexts (Guadeloupe Québec) try to establish what has been mutually understood (grounding processes) with respect shared tasks in geography literature. We identify dynamic interplay meaning-making dialogue, knowledge-building processes, types contributions that are made. An...

Mastering lexical collocation uses in learning English as a foreign language is absolutely essential to develop students’ communicative skills and linguistic abilities. Most students, however, have problems with putting words together characteristic of “natural” native speaker-like manner during writing. Students tend use strange expressions therefore production does not sound natural carries i...

This paper reports an experiment that investigates interpretive distinctions between two different expressions of generalization in Spanish. In particular, our aim was to find out when the distinction generic statements (GS) such as Tigers have stripes and universally quantified (UQS) All tigers acquired Spanish-speaking children age groups (4/5-year-olds 8/9-year-olds), then compare these resu...

Discriminative theories frame language learning as a process of reducing uncertainty about the meaning an utterance by discriminating informative from uninformative cues via mechanisms prediction error and cue competition. Previous work showed that discriminative is affected order in which information presented during learning. Specifically, suffixes, where complex stems precede affixes, promot...

Participants aged 5;2-6;8, 9;2-10;6 and 18;1-22;2 (72 at each age) rated verb argument structure overgeneralization errors (e.g., *Daddy giggled the baby) using a five-point scale. The study was designed to investigate the feasibility of two proposed construction-general solutions to the question of how children retreat from, or avoid, such errors. No support was found for the prediction of the...