Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis, Interlanguage 1

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For the foreign language learner, the usual direction of the influence will be from the mother tongue to the foreign language At the phonological level, this will produce typical foreign pronunciations. The German learner of English may, for example, replace the English weak alveolar [r] sound with a German uvular [r] in English.

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