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- Title
Verb-argument constructions in advanced L2 English learner production: Insights from corpora and verbal fluency tasks.
- Authors
Römer, Ute; Skalicky, Stephen C.; Ellis, Nick C.
- Abstract
This paper draws on data from learner and native-speaker corpora as well as psycholinguistic data to gain insights into second language speaker knowledge of English verb-argument constructions (VACs). For each of 34 VACs, L1 German and L1 Spanish advanced English learners' and English native speakers' dominant verb–VAC associations are examined based on data retrieved from the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE), the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI), their respective Native Speaker (NS) reference corpora, and data collected in verbal fluency tasks in which participants complete VAC frames, such as, 'she _______ with the...' with verbs that come to mind. We compare findings from the different data sets and consider the strengths and limitations of each in relation to questions in usage-based second language acquisition and Construction Grammar.
- Subjects
FLUENCY (Language learning); PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; VERBAL behavior testing; CONSTRUCTION grammar; CORPORA; NATIVE language; ACQUISITION of data; SPOKEN English
- Publication
Corpus Linguistics & Linguistic Theory, 2020, Vol 16, Issue 2, p303
- ISSN
1613-7027
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/cllt-2016-0055