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Development of verb argument constructions in L2 English learners: A close replication of research question 3 in Römer and Berger (2019)

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Udgivet i:Studies in Second Language Acquisition vol. 46, no. 5 (Dec 2024), p. 1373
Hovedforfatter: Liu, Yingying
Andre forfattere: Lu, Xiaofei
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Cambridge University Press
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Sparsity
Language
Spanish language
Corpus linguistics
Verbs
Data processing
English as a second language learning
British English
Statistical analysis
Second language learning
Corpus analysis
German language
Correlation analysis
Competence
Debates
Statistical Distributions
Inferences
Language Acquisition
English (Second Language)
Syntax
Correlation
Replication (Evaluation)
Statistical Inference
Statistical Data
Database Management Systems
Regression (Statistics)
English Learners
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Resumen:This study closely replicates the analyses of the third research question in Römer and Berger (2019), which reported that the associations between verbs and verb argument constructions (VACs) used by German and Spanish learners of English move closer to a native usage norm as the learners’ proficiency increases. This study conducted the same correlation analyses from the original study but with a substantially expanded version of the learner corpus used therein. Additionally, we conducted zero-inflated negative binomial analyses to estimate the relationship between the frequencies of verb-VAC combinations in the British National Corpus (BNC) and in the learner subcorpora representing different proficiency levels. Our findings were consistent with the original study in showing significant positive correlations between frequencies of the verb-VAC combinations in the BNC and in the learner subcorpora but further revealed the potential effect of topic on the learners’ VAC usage. Implications for future studies are discussed.
ISSN:0272-2631
1470-1545
DOI:10.1017/S027226312400024X
Fuente:Psychology Collection