Abstract:

An analysis of errors in an approximately 400 page corpus of German essays by American college students in second-year language courses shows that syntax is the most problematic area, followed by morphology. These two categories together make up 53% of errors. Errors are divided into five categories and two types. The study, a contribution to the error analysis element of a syntactic parser of German, indicates that most student errors (80%) are not of semantic origin, and therefore, are potentially recognizable by a syntactic parser.

Author: Vilius Juozulynas