A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE TERMINOLOGY AND TAXONOMIES USED IN THE LITERATURE ON LEXICAL ERRORS

Research on lexical development has been very scarce in the field of languageacquisition, and the studies that deal with lexical matters are relatively recent (Boyd-Zimmerman 1997). In research on second language acquisition (SLA) the focushas been on grammar, leaving aside the fact that vocabulary is vital in languageacquisition and communication (Laufer 1990b; Dagut 1977). Learners have to beable to “get across meaning” (Rivers in Laufer 1990b: 293), which is done, aboveall, with words. Grammatical rules are mere abstractions without communicativevalue if they do not relate sounds and meanings; and sound patterns are

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