[examines] the notion of error itself from a sociolinguistic perspective demonstrate that the assessment of what counts as an error is affected by data collection methodology, in particular by the way in which adult linguistic norms are established will draw on a longitudinal study of Samoan child language what is an error / a sociolinguistic sketch of Samoan / overall course of development / acquisition of two phonological registers / acquisition of word order / relating sociolinguistics to language acquisition (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)