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In what follows we shall consider some characteristics of L2 (inter)morphology and attempt to show that the phenomena we have been able to discover in this area of inquiry are consistent with the model of morphology proposed in Ford and Singh (1983, 1984, 1985. to appear), without, of course, eliminating all possible alternatives. Before taking up intermorphology, the focus of this paper, it would however, be necessary to outline the theory of morphology in question and to clear some cobwebs.
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Linguistic Theory and Second Language Acquisition Conference. M.I.T.. Cambridge. October 25–27. 1985. Work on this paper was in part supported by grants from SSHRC. Ottawa (410-82-0918R1). And SICI. Calgary. We are grateful to Alan Ford and Jayant Lele for having lighted our way. We are also grateful to Morris Halle and Sascha Felix for some very useful discussion.
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Singh, R., Martohardjono, G. (1988). Intermorphology and Morphological Theory: A Plea for a Concession. In: Flynn, S., O’Neil, W. (eds) Linguistic Theory in Second Language Acquisition. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2733-9_20
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