On the Use of Different Types of Multi-word Sequences by L2 Learners
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In recent research in the fields of corpus linguistics,psycholinguistics, and language acquisition, the existence of recurringsequences of words in language has been a common topic of interest. However,it is not yet certain whether the word sequences investigated in these differentfields refer to the same phenomenon. Whereas corpus linguistics tends to focuson the collocational frequency of a word sequence, psycholinguistic andlanguage acquisition studies investigate whether word sequences are stored as asingle unit in the mental lexicon. The present study seeks enlightenment on thisissue by examining the use of twenty-five recurrent clusters by L2 learners ofEnglish. The participants listened to a short story twice and were tested on theircorrect usage of the recurrent clusters in the story, which differed incollocational frequencies. The results showed that while accuracy rates weresignificantly higher for the high frequency test items (t=2.65, p=.01),exceptions for which collocational frequency was not correlated with highaccuracy of use were also found. The results of this study suggest that for L2learners, corpus-derived frequencies may not always be valid measures offormulaicity.
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In recent research in the fields of corpus linguistics,psycholinguistics, and language acquisition, the existence of recurringsequences of words in language has been a common topic of interest. However,it is not yet certain whether the word sequences investigated in these differentfields refer to the same phenomenon. Whereas corpus linguistics tends to focuson the collocational frequency of a word sequence, psycholinguistic andlanguage acquisition studies investigate whether word sequences are stored as asingle unit in the mental lexicon. The present study seeks enlightenment on thisissue by examining the use of twenty-five recurrent clusters by L2 learners ofEnglish. The participants listened to a short story twice and were tested on theircorrect usage of the recurrent clusters in the story, which differed incollocational frequencies. The results showed that while accuracy rates weresignificantly higher for the high frequency test items (t=2.65, p=.01),exceptions for which collocational frequency was not correlated with highaccuracy of use were also found. The results of this study suggest that for L2learners, corpus-derived frequencies may not always be valid measures offormulaicity.
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