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- Title
MORFOSÜNTAKTILISE JA LEKSIKAALSE VARIEERUMISE PIIRIDEST: ILUKIRJANDUS- JA ÕPPIJAKEELE KASUTUSMUSTRITE VÕRDLUS.
- Authors
Eslon, Pille
- Abstract
This study uses cluster analysis in order to describe the functional mobility of a language system. It compares Estonian fiction and learner language texts with regard to the use of language preceding the verb (e.g. ema lähemale tuli 'mother nearer came', kõhn keha vabises 'scrawny body trembled', elu ei ole 'life not is', ja kindlasti oli 'and certainly was', sest see aitab 'because it (that, this) helps'). The aim of this study is to show the constraints on morphosyntactic and lexical variability of the invariant n-grams. It is presumed that the functional potential of a language system is used more rationally by native speakers than by learners. Results of the analysis indicate that native speakers make optimal choices, which entail morphosyntactic simplicity but at the same time complexity and richness of vocabulary. Learners' language usage shows on the one hand a broader range of structural variability than in the language of fiction, but on the other hand, it reveals oversimplification based on stereotypical language structures, overuse and underuse of morphological classes and clusters and poor vocabulary.
- Subjects
MORPHOSYNTAX; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); FOREIGN language education; LEXICAL access; ESTONIAN fiction; PARSING (Grammar)
- Publication
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2014, Vol 10, p55
- ISSN
1736-2563
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5128/ERYa10.04