An account of the development of research and thinking in the field of learner language. Draws on wide-ranging research into contrastive analysis, bilingualism, theoretical linguistics and experimental psychology.
Foreword, William E. RutherfordAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Scope of the study1. Beginnings: Fries/Lado2. Towards interlanguage: Uriel Weinreich3. Units and equivalence across linguistic systems: Some bilingual data4. Some problems of comparison: The CA literature5. Some CA and EA ( and possibly IL ) data6. Theoretical advances: Corder and Van Buren7. The quintessential CA/IL notion: Language transfer8. The continual discovery of IL9. The reality of fossilization: An allegorical account10. Reframing interlanguage: Where we areAppendixReferencesIndex
