2 a term for an approach proposed by Terrell, to develop teaching
principles which:
aemphasize natural communication rather than formal grammar study
bare tolerant of learners’ errors
c emphasize the informal acquisition of language rules.naturalistic data n
also naturally occurring data
data that was not elicited for the purposes of research.
naturalistic second language learning
see instructed second language learning
natural language n
a language which has native speakers, in contrast with an artificial
language.
natural language processing n
the analysis of human language by a computer, for example, the automatic
analysis of a text in order to determine the kinds of grammatical structures
used, or the processing of spoken input for acoustic analysis.
natural method n
another term for natural approach
natural morphology n
a theory of morphology that describes a “natural” or “unmarked” system
and the laws that govern deviations from it. The most natural type of
morphology would be one in which every morpheme corresponds to
one and only one meaning and every meaning has one and only one form,
a relation called bi-uniqueness. The –smorpheme on the verb goesin the
sentence “John goes to work early” does not meet this condition, because
it encodes information concerning tense (present), person (3rd), and number
(singular).
see also markedness
naturalness nnatural adj
(in generative phonology) the probability that particular sounds, classes
of sounds, or phonological rules occur in any language. For example,
the vowels [i] and [u] are considered to be more frequent and therefore
more “natural” than the vowels [y] (an [i] pronounced with rounded lips)
and [¤] (an [u] pronounced with spread lips). In general, a language will
naturalistic data