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Linguistic Models, Acquisition Theories, and Learner Corpora: Morphological Productivity in SLA Research Exemplified by Complex Verbs in German
Author(s) -
Lüdeling Anke,
Hirschmann Hagen,
Shadrova Anna
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/lang.12231
Subject(s) - german , linguistics , productivity , second language acquisition , categorization , prefix , psychology , interlanguage , natural language processing , language proficiency , artificial intelligence , computer science , philosophy , economics , macroeconomics
The present study analyzes morphological productivity for complex verbs in second language acquisition by analyzing a corpus of German as a Foreign Language (GFL). It shows that advanced learners of GFL use prefix and particle verbs relatively frequently and productively but less so than native speakers do and discusses these findings in the light of different linguistic models and acquisition theories. It argues that corpus data must be evaluated against good models and that it is necessary to make the categorization decisions available as annotations.