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How word choice matters: An analysis of adjective-noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays
Jezikoslovlje, 14 (2013), 2-3; 385-402. urn:nbn:hr:142:807190
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Pavičić Takač, V. (2013). How word choice matters: An analysis of adjective-noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays. Jezikoslovlje, 14. (2-3), 385-402. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:807190

Pavičić Takač, Višnja. "How word choice matters: An analysis of adjective-noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays." Jezikoslovlje, vol. 14, no. 2-3, 2013, pp. 385-402. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:807190

Pavičić Takač, Višnja. "How word choice matters: An analysis of adjective-noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays." Jezikoslovlje 14, no. 2-3 (2013): 385-402. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:807190

Pavičić Takač, V. (2013) 'How word choice matters: An analysis of adjective-noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays', Jezikoslovlje, 14(2-3), pp. 385-402. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:807190 (Accessed 13 April 2024)

Pavičić Takač V. How word choice matters: An analysis of adjective-noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays. Jezikoslovlje [Internet]. 2013 December 02 [cited 2024 April 13];14(2-3):385-402. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:807190

V. Pavičić Takač, "How word choice matters: An analysis of adjective-noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays", Jezikoslovlje, vol. 14, no. 2-3, pp. 385-402, December 2013. [Online]. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:807190. [Accessed: 13 April 2024]

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Title (english)How word choice matters: An analysis of adjective-noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays
Title (croatian)O važnosti odabira riječi: Analiza kolokacija pridjev-imenica u korpusu učeničkih eseja
AuthorVišnja Pavičić Takač
MBZ: 208841
Author
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Author's institutionJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract (english)
Foreign language learners’ choice of collocations is traditionally considered to be one of the main markers of foreignlanguageness (Korosadowitz-Struzynska 1980: 115), hence relevant in achieving a high degree of competence in the target language. In this study we analyse the Croatian Corpus of English Learner Essays (CELE), which consists of 298 argumentative essays written as part of the state school-leaving exam. The corpus, consisting of over 74k tokens was collected in 10 different counties, and the essays were produced in 2010 and 2011. The learner’s use of adjective-noun collocations is compared against both findings from a native speaker corpus (BNC) and a corpus of learner English (ICLE). Instead of viewing learner usage of collocations as deficient, the claims about the overuse and the underuse of statistically significant collocations are made on the basis of joint findings from the BNC and the ICLE. This approach demonstrates how native speaker data can be used for comparison, without being the norm against which the learner data should be measured, and, on the other hand, how other learner data can help distinguish between general characteristics of learner language and L1-transfer.
Abstract (croatian)
Odabir i uporaba kolokacija često se ističe kao jedan od pokazatelja inojezičnosti (engl. foreignlanguageness, usp. Korosadowitz-Struzynska 1980), ali ujedno i visoke razine jezične sposobnosti. U ovome je istraživanju analiziran Hrvatski korpus eseja učenika engleskoga jezika (CELE) sastavljen od 198 eseja koje su napisali učenici engleskoga jezika iz deset županija 2010. i 2011. godine kao dio Državne mature iz engleskoga jezika. Korpus čini preko 74 000 pojavnica. Uspoređuje se uporaba kolokacije pridjev˗imenica s nalazima iz korpusa izvornih govornika (BNC) i korpusa učenika engleskoga jezika (ICLE). Uporaba kolokacija ne karakterizira se isključivo kao manjkava (usp. Shih 2000), nego se promatra pretjerana ili rijetka uporaba statistički značajnih kolokacija u usporedbi s nalazima iz korpusa BNC i ICLE. Taj pristup pokazuje s jedne strane da se jezična uporaba izvornih govornika ne mora primijeniti u usporedbi s jezičnom proizvodnjom neizvornih govornika isključivo kao norma, a s druge strane da podaci drugih učenika mogu poslužiti u razlikovanju općih obilježja međujezika i prijenosa iz materinskoga jezika (Ringbom 1998: 191).
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Languageenglish
Publication typeScientific paper - Original scientific paper
Publication statusPublished
Peer reviewPeer review - international
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Journal titleJezikoslovlje
Numberingvol. 14, no. 2-3, pp. 385-402
p-ISSN1331-7202
e-ISSN1848-9001
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:807190
Publication2013-12-02
Document URLhttp://hrcak.srce.hr/112232
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