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article Hi, everyone In a paper about a Brazilian author named José Ferrari Neto, there are these paragraphs I pulled from it: the first and the last one? Can you check them? Please! "In the article “Steps towards a new theory of the morphological acquisition”, part of the book “Interfaces of Grammar”, compiled by Ronald Taverna, José Ferrari-Neto (doctor of linguistics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and researcher in the fields of general linguistics and psycholinguistics) discussess the main requirements that should be fulfilled in developing a theory of morphological acquisition, taking into account both derivational morphology and inflectional morphology, Thus, the article by Ferrari-Neto is constructed from a perspective that both derivational morphology and inflectional morphology should serve as a basis for understanding how children assimilate morphemes, split words into minor elements and integrate these elements into their own lexicon of their mother language. Therefore, Ferrari-Neto’s text, in spite of addressing some relatively general matters in dispute in the field of linguistics, is meant for teachers, students and people acquainted with basic linguistic concepts and who are in some way involved in areas of study such as linguistics, psychology and pedagogy. To these people, the article functions as a driving force towards new research studies concerned with how morphological aspects of language are internalized during early childhood." Please, I need your help. Is it poor English? Thank you so much!

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Hi, everyone

In a paper about a Brazilian author named José Ferrari Neto, there are these paragraphs I pulled from it: the first and the last one? Can you check them? Please!


"In the article “Steps towards a new theory of the morphological acquisition”, from part of the book “Interfaces of Grammar” compiled by Ronald Taverna, José Ferrari-Neto (doctor of linguistics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and researcher in the fields of general linguistics and psycholinguistics) discussess the main requirements that should be fulfilled in developing a theory of morphological acquisition, taking into account both derivational morphology and inflectional morphology.

Thus, the article by Ferrari-Neto is constructed from a perspective that both derivational morphology and inflectional morphology should serve as a basis for understanding how children assimilate morphemes, split words into minor elements and integrate these elements into their own lexicon of their mother language. In my opinion, "their own lexicon of their mother language" is redundant, but it is not incorrect. I would have written "the lexicon of their mother language." Therefore, Ferrari-Neto’s text, in spite of addressing some relatively general matters in dispute in the field of linguistics, is meant for teachers, students and people acquainted with basic linguistic concepts and those who are in some way involved in areas of study such as linguistics, psychology and pedagogy. To these people, the article functions as a driving force towards new research studies concerned with how morphological aspects of language are internalized during early childhood."

Please, I need your help.

Is it poor English?
Thank you so much!
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Yes it actually very strong English, although I now see a few minor errors. I will post a correction. It is just written VERY formally, similar to how I would write a science essay in college. I would not suggest using it as learning material because no one speaks this way and you only see things written this way in very technical papers.
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Really? I found this article a little bit odd. It is about a Brazilian author, so it must be written by a non-native speaker. Isn't it kind of poor English?
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article

Hi, everyone

In a paper about a Brazilian author named José Ferrari Neto, there are these paragraphs I pulled from it: the first and the last one? Can you check them? Please!


"In the article “Steps towards a new theory of the morphological acquisition”, part of the book “Interfaces of Grammar”, compiled by Ronald Taverna, José Ferrari-Neto (doctor of linguistics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and researcher in the fields of general linguistics and psycholinguistics) discusses the main requirements that should be fulfilled in developing a theory of morphological acquisition, taking into account both derivational morphology and inflectional morphology.

Thus, the article by Ferrari-Neto is constructed from a perspective that both derivational morphology and inflectional morphology should serve as a basis for understanding how children assimilate morphemes, split words into minor elements and integrate these elements into their own lexicon of their mother language. Therefore, Ferrari-Neto’s text, in spite of addressing some relatively general matters of dispute in the field of linguistics, it is meant (he meant it) for teachers, students and people acquainted with basic linguistic concepts and who are in some way involved in areas of study such as linguistics, psychology and pedagogy. To these people, the article functions as a driving force towards new research studies concerned with how morphological aspects of language are internalized during early childhood."

Please, I need your help.

Is it poor English?
Thank you so much!
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The English here is perfectly correct. It is very advanced though, and I think it would be hard for a learner to understand.

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