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ERIC Number: EJ155274
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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Rule Fossilization: A Tentative Model
Vigil, Neddy A.; Oller, John W.
Language Learning, 26, 2, 281-295, Dec 76
A cybernetic model of factors involved in the fossilization of grammatical and lexical forms in learner grammars is offered. A distinction is made between affective and cognitive dimensions of a multidimensional channel of human communication; and the effect of expected and unexpected feedback on these two dimensions is discussed. (Author/POP)
Descriptors: Conditioning, Cybernetics, Interlanguage, Language Research, Learning Processes, Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics, Responses, Second Language Learning
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