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Generative phonology and contrastive studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Jacek Fisiak
Jacek Fisiak*
Affiliation:
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
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The development of contrastive studies (CS) in recent years, judging by the proliferation of projects and published materials, has been accompanied since the late sixties by vigorous discussions and controversies concerning the theoretical status of CS, their form and their place in both general and applied linguistics.

Many linguists and language teachers have gone so far as to reject the validity and usefulness of CS (cf. Alatis, 1968). It seems that this attitude results from a number of misunderstandings created by such factors as the peculiar methodological status of CS, the lack of a clear-cut distinction between theoretical and applied CS (Stockwell, 1968:25; Fisiak, 1971:88ff), and the lack of any precise formulation of the different aims of theoretical CS and applied CS, as well as the confusion of the relationship between CS, psycholinguistic theories of interference and errors, and the theory of second language learning (Zabrocki, 1976). Some confusion also stems from the misunderstanding of the relationship between CS and linguistic theory.

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , Fall 1976 , pp. 171 - 179
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1976

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