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New Approaches to English Linguistics
Building bridges
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slcs.177
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https://benjamins.com
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.177
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Olga Timofeeva
Timofeeva, Olga
Olga
Timofeeva
University of Zurich
2
B01
Anne-Christine Gardner
Gardner, Anne-Christine
Anne-Christine
Gardner
University of Zurich
3
B01
Alpo Honkapohja
Honkapohja, Alpo
Alpo
Honkapohja
University of Zurich
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B01
Sarah Chevalier
Chevalier, Sarah
Sarah
Chevalier
University of Zurich
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Historical linguistics
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Theoretical linguistics
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This book aims at providing a cross-section of current developments in English linguistics, by tracing recent approaches to corpus linguistics and statistical methodology, by introducing new inter- and multidisciplinary refinements to empirical methodology, and by documenting the on-going emphasis shift within the discipline of English linguistics from the study of dominant language varieties to that of post-colonial, minority, non-standardised, learner and L2 varieties. Among the key focus areas that define research in the field of English linguistics today, this selection concentrates on four: corpus linguistics, English as a global language, cognitive linguistics, and second language acquisition. Most of the articles in this volume concentrate on at least two of these areas and at the same time bring in their own suggestions towards building bridges within and across sub-disciples of linguistics and beyond.
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Sarah Chevalier
Chevalier, Sarah
Sarah
Chevalier
University of Zurich
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A01
Anne-Christine Gardner
Gardner, Anne-Christine
Anne-Christine
Gardner
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Alpo Honkapohja
Honkapohja, Alpo
Alpo
Honkapohja
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Marianne Hundt
Hundt, Marianne
Marianne
Hundt
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Gerold Schneider
Schneider, Gerold
Gerold
Schneider
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Olga Timofeeva
Timofeeva, Olga
Olga
Timofeeva
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Accommodation, dialect contact and grammatical variation
Verbs of obligation in the Anglophone community in Japan
1
A01
Keiko Hirano
Hirano, Keiko
Keiko
Hirano
University of Kitakyushu
2
A01
David Britain
Britain, David
David
Britain
University of Bern
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dialect contact
20
linguistic accommodation
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social network approach
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verbs of obligation
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The present study investigates dialect contact and linguistic accommodation in the use of verbs expressing obligation (such as MUST, HAVE GOT TO, HAVE TO and GOT TO) among native speakers of English resident in Japan, using a social network approach. Approximately 500 tokens were extracted from conversations between 39 native speakers of English from England, the US and New Zealand, recorded in single-nationality dyads, both immediately upon arrival in Japan and after a period of one year. Statistical analysis revealed that the informants from England actually diverged from the forms typically used by the Americans. The results, however, demonstrate the importance of social network strength in accounting for the consequences of dialect contact and short to medium-term linguistic accommodation.
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slcs.177.03kru
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66
32
Article
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Patterns of linguistic globalization
Integrating typological profiles and questionnaire data
1
A01
Manfred G. Krug
Krug, Manfred G.
Manfred G.
Krug
University of Bamberg
2
A01
Ole Schützler
Schützler, Ole
Ole
Schützler
3
A01
Valentin Werner
Werner, Valentin
Valentin
Werner
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cluster analysis
20
globalization
20
questionnaires
20
regression models
20
varieties of English
01
In this paper, we present ways of relating the broad scope of typologically motivated approaches to variationist questionnaire data. We explore how descriptive and inferential statistics (such as linear regression) and exploratory techniques (such as aggregative analyses) can be combined for a more holistic investigation of variationist questionnaire data on lexical choices from British, Maltese, American and Puerto Rican English. Our analyses show that raters from the British English(-influenced) and the American English(-influenced) sphere form distinct clusters. Adopting a more fine-grained perspective, we find evidence both for the actual existence of four distinct regional varieties and for globalizing tendencies. Based on our results, we further argue that variety-internal variation is often motivated lexically rather than socially.
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slcs.177.04gre
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116
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The substitutability and diffusion of <i>want to</i> and <i>wanna</i> in world Englishes
The
substitutability and diffusion of <i>want to</i> and <i>wanna</i> in world Englishes
1
A01
Eugene Green
Green, Eugene
Eugene
Green
Boston University
20
clausal patterns
20
functional shift
20
phonological features
20
pragmatics
20
semantic dimensions
20
verb phrases
01
Occurrences of <i>want to</i> and <i>wanna</i> in the extensive database GloWbE have widespread, though disparate, frequencies in varieties of English. This diffusion of <i>want to</i> as consistently greater in frequency than <i>wanna</i> throughout twenty varieties, however, awaits further sampling and analysis. As for substitutability,<i> want to</i> and <i>wanna</i> recur in nearly all environments. Two deterrents to such substitutability, one semantic, the other structural, are due to institutional and spoken practices. In institutional settings, <i>want to</i> in the sense ‘obligation’ prevails exclusively. In speech <i>want to</i> again prevails over <i>wanna</i> (but not exclusively) in clause final position. One emergent practice finds <i>wanna</i>, uninflected and unrelated to the infinitive marker <i>to</i>, colligated with nouns and noun phrases. This practice is indicative of unforeseen patterns, related to <i>wanna</i> and <i>want to</i>, likely to arise in colloquial English.
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slcs.177.05bru
117
140
24
Article
5
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Dialect contact influences on the use of GET and the GET-passive
1
A01
Elisabeth Bruckmaier
Bruckmaier, Elisabeth
Elisabeth
Bruckmaier
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
20
dialect contact
20
GET-passive
20
substrate influence
20
word-forms
20
World Englishes
01
GET is a highly frequent and multifunctional English verb but has so far gone unnoticed in variationist studies of World Englishes. This study aims at exploring to what extent dialect contact contributes to the variation of GET in British, Jamaican, and Singaporean English, in particular to variation in the frequencies of its word-forms and in the use of the GET-passive. For that purpose, all tokens of GET in the ICE (International Corpus of English) corpora of Great Britain, Jamaica, and Singapore were analysed for form and meaning. The results demonstrate that influence from the major standard varieties British and American English as well as substrate influence can be made responsible for the variation of GET.
10
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JB code
slcs.177.06sch
141
174
34
Article
6
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Future time marking in spoken Ghanaian English
The variation of<i> will</i> vs. <i>be going to</i>
1
A01
Agnes Schneider
Schneider, Agnes
Agnes
Schneider
University of Freiburg
20
corpus linguistics
20
future time marking
20
Ghanaian English
20
mixed effects logistic regression model
20
nativization
20
World Englishes
01
This article investigates outcomes in the process of structural nativization in the evolution of New English varieties in the domain of future time marking, analyzing the constraints on variation of WILL and BE GOING TO in spoken Ghanaian English (GhE) as compared to British English (BrE), using mixed effects logistic regression models. The analysis shows that in spoken GhE future time markers are not as clearly distributed syntactically, semantically, and pragmatically as in spoken BrE, which reflects its learner variety history and its status in a highly multilingual society. However, it is also shown that different future marker-verb collocations in spoken GhE may reflect first nativization processes in the variety, which corroborates previous findings that innovations in New Englishes start at the lexico-grammatical level (cf. Schneider 2007: 86–88).
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slcs.177.07lai
175
196
22
Article
7
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Ongoing changes in English modals
On the developments in ELF
1
A01
Mikko Laitinen
Laitinen, Mikko
Mikko
Laitinen
University of Eastern Finland
20
emergent modal auxiliaries
20
English as a lingua franca
20
modal auxiliaries
20
ongoing change
20
second language use
01
The article investigates how ongoing grammatical change, widely documented in various native varieties, is adopted in advanced lingua franca use of English (ELF). It incorporates a broader perspective on ELF than previously, seeing it as one stage in the long diachronic continuum of Englishes rather than as an entity emerging in spoken interaction. The first part details a corpus project that produces written multi-genre corpora suitable for real-time studies of how ongoing variability is reflected in lingua franca use. It is followed with a case study investigating quantitative patterns in a set of core and emergent modal auxiliaries. The results suggest that in cases of substantial recent changes in the core varieties of English, lingua franca uses polarize the diffusion of change. The conclusions suggest that a diachronically-informed angle to lingua franca use offers a new vantage point not only to ELF but also to ongoing grammatical variability.
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slcs.177.08war
197
211
15
Article
8
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Building interdisciplinary bridges
MUCH: The Malmö University-Chalmers Corpus of Academic Writing as a Process
1
A01
Anna Wärnsby
Wärnsby, Anna
Anna
Wärnsby
Malmö University
2
A01
Asko Kauppinen
Kauppinen, Asko
Asko
Kauppinen
Chalmers University of Technology
3
A01
Andreas Eriksson
Eriksson, Andreas
Andreas
Eriksson
University of Southern Denmark
4
A01
Maria Wiktorsson
Wiktorsson, Maria
Maria
Wiktorsson
University of Gothenburg
5
A01
Eckhard Bick
Bick, Eckhard
Eckhard
Bick
6
A01
Leif-Joran Olsson
Olsson, Leif-Joran
Leif-Joran
Olsson
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corpus
20
EFL
20
peer and instructor feedback
20
writing process
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This paper describes a corpus of writing as a process (MUCH), comprising English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student texts. The corpus will contain a large number of richly annotated papers in several versions from students of different performance levels. It will also include peer and instructor feedback, as well as tools for visualising the revision process, and for analysing the writing process and the peer and instructor feedback. MUCH will make it possible to study how texts develop and change in the course of the writing process and how feedback impacts the process.
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slcs.177.09gil
213
249
37
Article
9
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Discourse markers in L2 English
From classroom to naturalistic input
1
A01
Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle
Gaëtanelle
Gilquin
Université catholique de Louvain / FNRS
20
acquisition context
20
discourse markers
20
English as a foreign language
20
English as a second language
20
target language input
01
This chapter investigates how the context of acquisition, and more precisely the amount of naturalistic input received, may influence non-native speakers’ knowledge of English discourse markers. It considers three levels of analysis, from the more individual (foreign language learners having spent different periods of time in a target language country) to the more general (foreign language setting vs. official language setting), over an intermediate level of analysis comparing populations of foreign language learners from different countries. The corpus study carried out suggests that a higher degree of exposure to naturalistic language tends to have a positive impact on learners’ knowledge of discourse markers, resulting in more frequent use, better approximation of native speaker frequencies and, possibly, more fluent usage.
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01
JB code
slcs.177.10sch
251
280
30
Article
10
01
Processing of aspectual meanings by non-native and native English speakers during narrative comprehension
1
A01
Andreas Schramm
Schramm, Andreas
Andreas
Schramm
Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota
2
A01
Michael C. Mensink
Mensink, Michael C.
Michael C.
Mensink
University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin
20
aspectual meanings
20
grammatical and lexical aspect
20
language acquisition
20
narrative processes
20
text comprehension
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Languages have unique systems of language forms, meanings, and conventions for expressing narratives and temporal structure, grammatical aspect and its meaning and use being part of it. In second-language acquisition, little is known what temporal concepts and concurrent forms are comprehended at certain development stages and whether resulting mental representations are similar between native and non-native adult English speakers. In this study, we investigate whether readers attend to semantic content and draw causal inferences. Advanced non-native, unlike native, readers appear to not notice aspectual meanings and, apparently, the input is not cognitively registered; implicit learning of aspect seems unlikely. In native readers, aspect affects the availability of situations enabling causal inferencing, and imperfective aspect appears to be mentally stored in-focus.
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slcs.177.11sch
281
320
40
Article
11
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Statistical sequence and parsing models for descriptive linguistics and psycholinguistics
1
A01
Gerold Schneider
Schneider, Gerold
Gerold
Schneider
University of Zurich/University of Konstanz
2
A01
Gintare Grigonyte
Grigonyte, Gintare
Gintare
Grigonyte
University of Stockholm
20
ambiguity
20
idiom and syntax principle
20
language processing
20
statistical models
20
syntactic parsing
01
This study shows that using computational linguistic models is beneficial for descriptive linguistics and psycholinguistics. It applies two models to various English genres and learner language: 1) surprisal and 2) a syntactic parser, allowing us to investigate the role of ambiguity and the interplay between idiom and syntax principles. We find that surprisal and ambiguity are higher for learner language, while parser scores and model fit are lower. In addition, the random application of alternations leads to more ambiguous sentences. Failures to generate optimal orderings in the sense of relevance theory, such as nonnative-like utterances by language learners exhibit, increase processing load, both for human and automatic processors. As human and automatic parsing difficulties correlate, we suggest syntactic parsers as psycholinguistic processing models.
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Miscellaneous
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Building bridges
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.177
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Timofeeva
University of Zurich
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Anne-Christine Gardner
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University of Zurich
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Sarah Chevalier
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Sarah
Chevalier
University of Zurich
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Anne-Christine Gardner
Gardner, Anne-Christine
Anne-Christine
Gardner
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A01
Alpo Honkapohja
Honkapohja, Alpo
Alpo
Honkapohja
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Marianne Hundt
Hundt, Marianne
Marianne
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Gerold Schneider
Schneider, Gerold
Gerold
Schneider
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Olga Timofeeva
Timofeeva, Olga
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slcs.177.02hir
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33
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Accommodation, dialect contact and grammatical variation
Verbs of obligation in the Anglophone community in Japan
1
A01
Keiko Hirano
Hirano, Keiko
Keiko
Hirano
University of Kitakyushu
2
A01
David Britain
Britain, David
David
Britain
University of Bern
20
dialect contact
20
linguistic accommodation
20
social network approach
20
verbs of obligation
01
The present study investigates dialect contact and linguistic accommodation in the use of verbs expressing obligation (such as MUST, HAVE GOT TO, HAVE TO and GOT TO) among native speakers of English resident in Japan, using a social network approach. Approximately 500 tokens were extracted from conversations between 39 native speakers of English from England, the US and New Zealand, recorded in single-nationality dyads, both immediately upon arrival in Japan and after a period of one year. Statistical analysis revealed that the informants from England actually diverged from the forms typically used by the Americans. The results, however, demonstrate the importance of social network strength in accounting for the consequences of dialect contact and short to medium-term linguistic accommodation.
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slcs.177.03kru
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66
32
Article
3
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Patterns of linguistic globalization
Integrating typological profiles and questionnaire data
1
A01
Manfred G. Krug
Krug, Manfred G.
Manfred G.
Krug
University of Bamberg
2
A01
Ole Schützler
Schützler, Ole
Ole
Schützler
3
A01
Valentin Werner
Werner, Valentin
Valentin
Werner
20
cluster analysis
20
globalization
20
questionnaires
20
regression models
20
varieties of English
01
In this paper, we present ways of relating the broad scope of typologically motivated approaches to variationist questionnaire data. We explore how descriptive and inferential statistics (such as linear regression) and exploratory techniques (such as aggregative analyses) can be combined for a more holistic investigation of variationist questionnaire data on lexical choices from British, Maltese, American and Puerto Rican English. Our analyses show that raters from the British English(-influenced) and the American English(-influenced) sphere form distinct clusters. Adopting a more fine-grained perspective, we find evidence both for the actual existence of four distinct regional varieties and for globalizing tendencies. Based on our results, we further argue that variety-internal variation is often motivated lexically rather than socially.
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slcs.177.04gre
67
116
50
Article
4
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The substitutability and diffusion of <i>want to</i> and <i>wanna</i> in world Englishes
The
substitutability and diffusion of <i>want to</i> and <i>wanna</i> in world Englishes
1
A01
Eugene Green
Green, Eugene
Eugene
Green
Boston University
20
clausal patterns
20
functional shift
20
phonological features
20
pragmatics
20
semantic dimensions
20
verb phrases
01
Occurrences of <i>want to</i> and <i>wanna</i> in the extensive database GloWbE have widespread, though disparate, frequencies in varieties of English. This diffusion of <i>want to</i> as consistently greater in frequency than <i>wanna</i> throughout twenty varieties, however, awaits further sampling and analysis. As for substitutability,<i> want to</i> and <i>wanna</i> recur in nearly all environments. Two deterrents to such substitutability, one semantic, the other structural, are due to institutional and spoken practices. In institutional settings, <i>want to</i> in the sense ‘obligation’ prevails exclusively. In speech <i>want to</i> again prevails over <i>wanna</i> (but not exclusively) in clause final position. One emergent practice finds <i>wanna</i>, uninflected and unrelated to the infinitive marker <i>to</i>, colligated with nouns and noun phrases. This practice is indicative of unforeseen patterns, related to <i>wanna</i> and <i>want to</i>, likely to arise in colloquial English.
10
01
JB code
slcs.177.05bru
117
140
24
Article
5
01
Dialect contact influences on the use of GET and the GET-passive
1
A01
Elisabeth Bruckmaier
Bruckmaier, Elisabeth
Elisabeth
Bruckmaier
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
20
dialect contact
20
GET-passive
20
substrate influence
20
word-forms
20
World Englishes
01
GET is a highly frequent and multifunctional English verb but has so far gone unnoticed in variationist studies of World Englishes. This study aims at exploring to what extent dialect contact contributes to the variation of GET in British, Jamaican, and Singaporean English, in particular to variation in the frequencies of its word-forms and in the use of the GET-passive. For that purpose, all tokens of GET in the ICE (International Corpus of English) corpora of Great Britain, Jamaica, and Singapore were analysed for form and meaning. The results demonstrate that influence from the major standard varieties British and American English as well as substrate influence can be made responsible for the variation of GET.
10
01
JB code
slcs.177.06sch
141
174
34
Article
6
01
Future time marking in spoken Ghanaian English
The variation of<i> will</i> vs. <i>be going to</i>
1
A01
Agnes Schneider
Schneider, Agnes
Agnes
Schneider
University of Freiburg
20
corpus linguistics
20
future time marking
20
Ghanaian English
20
mixed effects logistic regression model
20
nativization
20
World Englishes
01
This article investigates outcomes in the process of structural nativization in the evolution of New English varieties in the domain of future time marking, analyzing the constraints on variation of WILL and BE GOING TO in spoken Ghanaian English (GhE) as compared to British English (BrE), using mixed effects logistic regression models. The analysis shows that in spoken GhE future time markers are not as clearly distributed syntactically, semantically, and pragmatically as in spoken BrE, which reflects its learner variety history and its status in a highly multilingual society. However, it is also shown that different future marker-verb collocations in spoken GhE may reflect first nativization processes in the variety, which corroborates previous findings that innovations in New Englishes start at the lexico-grammatical level (cf. Schneider 2007: 86–88).
10
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JB code
slcs.177.07lai
175
196
22
Article
7
01
Ongoing changes in English modals
On the developments in ELF
1
A01
Mikko Laitinen
Laitinen, Mikko
Mikko
Laitinen
University of Eastern Finland
20
emergent modal auxiliaries
20
English as a lingua franca
20
modal auxiliaries
20
ongoing change
20
second language use
01
The article investigates how ongoing grammatical change, widely documented in various native varieties, is adopted in advanced lingua franca use of English (ELF). It incorporates a broader perspective on ELF than previously, seeing it as one stage in the long diachronic continuum of Englishes rather than as an entity emerging in spoken interaction. The first part details a corpus project that produces written multi-genre corpora suitable for real-time studies of how ongoing variability is reflected in lingua franca use. It is followed with a case study investigating quantitative patterns in a set of core and emergent modal auxiliaries. The results suggest that in cases of substantial recent changes in the core varieties of English, lingua franca uses polarize the diffusion of change. The conclusions suggest that a diachronically-informed angle to lingua franca use offers a new vantage point not only to ELF but also to ongoing grammatical variability.
10
01
JB code
slcs.177.08war
197
211
15
Article
8
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Building interdisciplinary bridges
MUCH: The Malmö University-Chalmers Corpus of Academic Writing as a Process
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Anna Wärnsby
Wärnsby, Anna
Anna
Wärnsby
Malmö University
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A01
Asko Kauppinen
Kauppinen, Asko
Asko
Kauppinen
Chalmers University of Technology
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A01
Andreas Eriksson
Eriksson, Andreas
Andreas
Eriksson
University of Southern Denmark
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A01
Maria Wiktorsson
Wiktorsson, Maria
Maria
Wiktorsson
University of Gothenburg
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A01
Eckhard Bick
Bick, Eckhard
Eckhard
Bick
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A01
Leif-Joran Olsson
Olsson, Leif-Joran
Leif-Joran
Olsson
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corpus
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EFL
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peer and instructor feedback
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writing process
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This paper describes a corpus of writing as a process (MUCH), comprising English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student texts. The corpus will contain a large number of richly annotated papers in several versions from students of different performance levels. It will also include peer and instructor feedback, as well as tools for visualising the revision process, and for analysing the writing process and the peer and instructor feedback. MUCH will make it possible to study how texts develop and change in the course of the writing process and how feedback impacts the process.
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slcs.177.09gil
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249
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Article
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Discourse markers in L2 English
From classroom to naturalistic input
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Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle
Gaëtanelle
Gilquin
Université catholique de Louvain / FNRS
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acquisition context
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discourse markers
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English as a foreign language
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English as a second language
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target language input
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This chapter investigates how the context of acquisition, and more precisely the amount of naturalistic input received, may influence non-native speakers’ knowledge of English discourse markers. It considers three levels of analysis, from the more individual (foreign language learners having spent different periods of time in a target language country) to the more general (foreign language setting vs. official language setting), over an intermediate level of analysis comparing populations of foreign language learners from different countries. The corpus study carried out suggests that a higher degree of exposure to naturalistic language tends to have a positive impact on learners’ knowledge of discourse markers, resulting in more frequent use, better approximation of native speaker frequencies and, possibly, more fluent usage.
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JB code
slcs.177.10sch
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280
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Article
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Processing of aspectual meanings by non-native and native English speakers during narrative comprehension
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Andreas Schramm
Schramm, Andreas
Andreas
Schramm
Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Michael C. Mensink
Mensink, Michael C.
Michael C.
Mensink
University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin
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aspectual meanings
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grammatical and lexical aspect
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language acquisition
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narrative processes
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text comprehension
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Languages have unique systems of language forms, meanings, and conventions for expressing narratives and temporal structure, grammatical aspect and its meaning and use being part of it. In second-language acquisition, little is known what temporal concepts and concurrent forms are comprehended at certain development stages and whether resulting mental representations are similar between native and non-native adult English speakers. In this study, we investigate whether readers attend to semantic content and draw causal inferences. Advanced non-native, unlike native, readers appear to not notice aspectual meanings and, apparently, the input is not cognitively registered; implicit learning of aspect seems unlikely. In native readers, aspect affects the availability of situations enabling causal inferencing, and imperfective aspect appears to be mentally stored in-focus.
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JB code
slcs.177.11sch
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320
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Article
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Statistical sequence and parsing models for descriptive linguistics and psycholinguistics
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Gerold Schneider
Schneider, Gerold
Gerold
Schneider
University of Zurich/University of Konstanz
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A01
Gintare Grigonyte
Grigonyte, Gintare
Gintare
Grigonyte
University of Stockholm
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ambiguity
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idiom and syntax principle
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language processing
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statistical models
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syntactic parsing
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This study shows that using computational linguistic models is beneficial for descriptive linguistics and psycholinguistics. It applies two models to various English genres and learner language: 1) surprisal and 2) a syntactic parser, allowing us to investigate the role of ambiguity and the interplay between idiom and syntax principles. We find that surprisal and ambiguity are higher for learner language, while parser scores and model fit are lower. In addition, the random application of alternations leads to more ambiguous sentences. Failures to generate optimal orderings in the sense of relevance theory, such as nonnative-like utterances by language learners exhibit, increase processing load, both for human and automatic processors. As human and automatic parsing difficulties correlate, we suggest syntactic parsers as psycholinguistic processing models.
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slcs.177.12nam
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Miscellaneous
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Name index
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slcs.177.13sub
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