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Lexical Priming: Applications and advances
Edited by Michael Pace-Sigge and Katie J. Patterson
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 79] 2017
► pp. 253–271

Lexical and morphological priming

A holistic phraseological analysis of the Finnish time expression kello

| University of Jyväskylä

Using the International Corpus of Learner Finnish, this study examines Finnish time expressions and the lexical item kello (‘watch, time, o’clock’), which is overused by learners of Finnish. The chapter provides a holistic phraseological account of kello that includes not only its collocates but also its morphological priming, n-grams and semantic associations. Previous studies on phraseology have mostly concentrated on languages like English, which have little inflection with the result that morphology has rarely been touched upon in phraseology studies. The results suggest that the analysis of learner language benefits from a holistic approach to phraseology and that morphological priming as well as semantic preference play an important role in the learner language phraseology.

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Priming, phraseology and learner language
    • 2.1Lexical priming and language learning
    • 2.2Morphological priming
  • 3.Methodology and data
    • 3.1Corpus-driven approach and keywords
    • 3.2Data
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1Keywords in learner Finnish
    • 4.2The case of kello: A learner Finnish keyword or a genre-specific item?
    • 4.3 Kello as a phraseological unit
      • 4.3.1Morphological priming in time expressions
      • 4.3.2Collocates and n-grams of kello
      • 4.3.3Semantic priming of kello
  • 5.Conclusions
  • References
Published online: 14 August 2017
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