Dutch learner English in close-up

Vuuren, S. van; Laskin, Lyuben

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“…Van Vuuren (2013) found that transfer of information structure leads learners to "overuse clause-initial adverbials of place as well as addition adverbials that refer back to an antecedent in the directly preceding discourse" (p. 173). Van Vuuren and Laskin (2017) found that Dutch learners mainly stand out in their use of initial adverbials for discourse linking purposes, i.e. linking adverbials and adverbials used for local anchoring, as exemplified by (1b).…”

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“…One specific instance of information-structural transfer that has been studied in much detail by Verheijen, Los and De Haan (2013), Van Vuuren (2013), and Van Vuuren and Laskin (2017) is the use of initial adverbials in L2 English by Dutch learners, which has been hypothesized to result from syntactic and pragmatic differences between the two languages. Dutch is an SOV language with V2movement in the main clause (Koster, 1975), which means that the grammatical subject can occur either pre-or post-verbally.…”

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Does it ‘feel’ non-native?

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Vuuren²

2017

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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 hypothesized L1 interference on native speakers’ perceptions. In line with Rosén (2006), it was hypothesized that the frequency and contextual use of clause-initial place adverbials in L1 Dutch EFL writing would lead native speakers of English to judge texts to be less coherent, continuous, and native-like than texts written by native speakers. Our qualitative and quantitative empirical study demonstrates that native speakers are not necessarily aware of initial adverbials and are more concerned with other elements of the text that influence cohesion and flow. This new perspective on information-structural transfer forms a starting point for further research into the communicative effect of interlanguage features.1

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Does it ‘feel’ non-native?

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Vuuren²

2017

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Word Order and Information Structure in Advanced SLA

Lozano

Callies

2018

The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition

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Examining individual variation in learner production data: A few programmatic pointers for corpus-based analyses using the example of adverbial clause ordering

Gries

Wulff

2020

Applied Psycholinguistics

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This study examines the variable positioning of a finite adverbial subordinate clause and its main clause with the subordinate clause either preceding or following the main clause in native versus nonnative English. Specifically, we contrast causal, concessive, conditional, and temporal adverbial clauses produced by German and Chinese learners of English with those produced by native speakers. We examined 2,362 attestations from the Chinese and German subsections of the International Corpus of Learner English (Granger, Dagneaux, Meunier, & Paquot, 2009) and from the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays (Granger, 1998). All instances were annotated for the ordering, the subordinate clause type, the lengths of the main and subordinate clauses, the first language of the speakers, the conjunction used, and the file it originated from (as a proxy for the speaker producing the sentence so as to be able to study individual and lexical variation). The results of a two-step regression modeling protocol suggest that learners behave most nativelike with causal clauses and struggle most with conditional and concessive clauses; in addition, learners make more non-nativelike choices when the main and subordinate clause are of about equal length.

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Dutch learner English in close-up

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Does it ‘feel’ non-native?

Does it ‘feel’ non-native?

Word Order and Information Structure in Advanced SLA

Examining individual variation in learner production data: A few programmatic pointers for corpus-based analyses using the example of adverbial clause ordering

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