This study examines the errors in tenses made by 34 secondary students Brunei who were asked to write a short story based on picture composition, with focus testing Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis (NOH) L2 acquisition. The objective of is test theory NOH that irregular past tense acquired before regular through analysis verbs. collected data analyzed four steps error analysis: identification...

The aim of this study is threefold: firstly, to describe the acquisition patterns of Greek past tense by children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI); secondly, to investigate the relationship between the phonological salience of past tense in Greek and its acquisition by language impaired learners; thirdly, to establish an account on the nature of the impairment by comparing the acquisitio...

This paper presents results on using a new inductive logic programming method called Foidl to learn the past tense of English verbs. The past tense task has been widely studied in the context of the symbolic/connectionist debate. Previous papers have presented results using various neural-network and decision-tree learning methods. We have developed a technique for learning a special type of Pr...

DOI 10.1027/0044-3409.216.3.162 Abstract. Three measures have been found to be predictive of developmental language impairment: nonword repetition, the production of English past tense, and categorical speech perception. Despite this, direct comparisons of these tasks have been limited. The present study explored the associations between these measures and other language and cognitive skills in...

There are two major groups of analyses in the literature on English past tense; existential semantics with domain restriction, and pronominal (i.e. anaphoric) analysis. In this paper, I discuss a group data difficult for both these analyses: obligatory use some contexts without any salient antecedent, such as asking Who built church when pointing at (Kratzer 1998). The analysis predicts that te...