<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="1">Hello,<BR>
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I am a French student and I am doing a doctorate on the acquisition of English simple past by French second language learners in a school setting.<BR>
I would like to measure the frequency of English verbs, both regular and irregular, and their inflexions (in the simple past). For the experimentation I led during my master, I used Rumelhart and McClelland's typology (1988). Unfortunately, this typology is based on an English corpus and I do not know if these verbs frequency can be applied to the acquisition of English as a second language by French learners in a school setting.<BR>
I am wondering if a typology of English verbs frequency and their inflexions in the past simple for second language learners exists. Do you have any information about such a typology? Or do you know if there are, more generally, articles or studies about inputs and frequencies in a school setting.<BR>
Thanks<BR>
Coralie<BR>
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