Analysis Of The Rabbit And The Coyote

There are many theories on how a person acquires a language. One can see that technology has influenced the way we input information as well as how we gather data based on these Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theories. For example, today’s technology has helped us study the way the human brain works, and this is what our theories of SLA are based on. So it is evident that many of the SLA theories are based on the way the human brain works and how it develops. Moving on, this case study is based on two Spanish speakers who are English Language Learners (ELL) and how they were led to determine the SLA on the subject of their speech. The two Spanish speakers that are analyzed during this investigation are Elizabeth, a five-year old girl, and

According to the book, Linguistics for Non-Linguist by Frank Parker and Kathryn Riley, “Morphology is the study of word formation” (Parker & Riley, 2010, Pg 79 ). One can see that when these individuals are giving their summaries, they don’t follow the rules of English. Since, they are sub-conscious unaware. For example, when Clara stated “And he hanged”, it would make sense to someone whom spoke Spanish because it in the correct order. To clarify, the output of the morphology is inappropriate because of their primary language skills. It is evident because the word order is correct in Spanish; however, it does not follow the rules of English. To further explain this point hanged is not a word. The past tense of hang is hung. So it is evident that the word hang has a meaning itself, the word ed does not. In a morphology aspect, hang is a lexical morphemes because it has a meaning in and of themselves, while ed is consider to be a grammatical morpheme since it cannot stand alone and have a meaning of itself. All of these occurrences are essentially in morphology. Furthermore, we can make an assumption that Clara does not know the rules of past tense and this evident because she makes the same mistake throughout her document. Other examples in Clara’s retelling are when she says: the rabbit say, get burned and run, and sticked. Moreover,