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ERIC Number: EJ155267
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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The Psycholinguistic Unity of Language Learning and Language Change
Dickerson, Wayne B.
Language Learning, 26, 2, 215-231, Dec 76
In comparing the mechanism of a native language sound change and the acquisition of a second language phonology, it is concluded that individuals approach the learning and changing of phonology in a psycholinguistically unified way; the foreign language learner is fundamentally like himself as a native language changer. (Author/POP)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Research, Language Universals, Learning, Learning Processes, Linguistics, Phonology, Second Language Learning
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