Sanne van Vuuren
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sanne van Vuuren plays a role.
Articles
2022. Strategies of clausal postmodification in learner English: L1 effects and L2 proficiency. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 8:2, pp. 157–189
The difficulty of automatically extracting syntactic structures from authentic learner data has previously limited the kinds of questions addressed by means of Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis (CIA; Granger, 2015), or has forced researchers to resort to manual analysis of smaller corpora. This… read more | Article
2020. Adverb placement in EFL academic writing: Going beyond syntactic transfer. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:2, pp. 156–185
The present study looks at adverb placement in expert writing and in first-language and second-language novice spoken and written production. The extent to which first-language (L1) transfer is still present in advanced learners’ written production is also investigated. The study uses data from one… read more | Article
2017. Dutch learner English in close-up: A Bayesian corpus analysis of pre-subject adverbials in advanced Dutch EFL writing. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 3:1, pp. 1–35
This study presents a longitudinal Bayesian analysis of pre-subject adverbial (PSA) use in a 571,174-word corpus of Dutch learner English. Overall, learners use more circumstance and linking adverbials, but fewer stance adverbials than both novice and expert native writers. Learners also use more… read more | Article
2017. Chapter 16. Common framework, local context, local anchors: How information-structural transfer can help to distinguish within CEFR C2. Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade, Los, Bettelou and Pieter de Haan (eds.), pp. 353–370
The differentiation between and within CEFR C1 and C2 is commonly determined by learners’ educational and cognitive development. Linguistic development may, however, also continue to play a subtle role in the shape of L1 information-structural transfer. Our Dutch EFL learner corpus was expected… read more | Chapter
2017. Does it ‘feel’ non-native? Native-speaker perceptions of information-structural transfer in L1 Dutch advanced EFL writing. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 6:2, pp. 197–212
Previous studies on information-structural transfer in texts produced by Dutch advanced learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) have found that one of the defining features in learners’ writing is a marked use of initial adverbials. The present study investigates the effect of this… read more | Article
2013. Information structural transfer in advanced Dutch EFL writing: A cross-linguistic longitudinal study. Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013, Aalberse, Suzanne and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 173–187
This article presents a case study on the role of L1 transfer of language-specific features of information structure in very advanced L2 learners. Cross-linguistic differences in the information status of clause-initial position in a V2 language like Dutch compared to an SVO language like English… read more | Article