(sans sujet)

[ROZANDZ at aol.com]

Hello,

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.
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.
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.
Thanks
Coralie
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