A multi-dimensional analysis of a learner corpus

Rooy, Bertus van; Terblanche, Lize

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“…The remark is often made that Outer Circle varieties sound overly formal (see Schneider 2007: 101; De Klerk and Gough 2002: 368). Nevertheless, some colloquial features are observed in writing, especially more situation‐dependent referencing, more dynamic presentation of events, more deliberate attempts to engage the reader as a conversation partner, and higher frequencies of grammatical constructions that occur more frequently in native speech than native writing (for Black South African English, see Van Rooy 2006, 2008; Van Rooy and Terblanche 2006, 2009; Terblanche 2009).…”

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Social and linguistic perspectives on variability in world Englishes

Rooy

2010

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Linguistic variability is a peripheral concern to many linguistic approaches. This paper argues that much is gained by taking variability seriously. An examination of the views of Trudgill and Schneider leads to a number of insights into new varieties of English, which may have wider implications for a general understanding of variability in language. Trudgill's claim that the stabilisation of colonial varieties of English is achieved deterministically, without the mediating role of social forces is considered, but not accepted. However, Trudgill draws attention to the important influence of the distribution of variants in the input to the eventual outcome. Schneider's model is accepted as far as the social processes are concerned, but has to be supplemented with a more thorough consideration of the input to language contact settings. The examination of the two views lead to two insights into social and psycholinguistic aspects of English language acquisition and the formation of new varieties in Outer Circle contexts. On the social side, learners are exposed to more variability, but simultaneously receive less input. Conventions and stabilisation are therefore likely to take longer. On the psycholinguistic side, learners are cognitively more mature when language acquisition starts, leading to general schemas that are less instance-based than those acquired by young children whose cognitive and linguistic development are aligned. On the basis of a deeper appreciation of variability in new varieties of English, it is concluded that standardisation is unlikely to have a significant effect on new varieties, and that they will develop conventions grounded in actual language use.

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Social and linguistic perspectives on variability in world Englishes

Rooy

2010

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“…1 The multidimensional method is designed, in the first instance, to distinguish between different registers. However, some studies have used the method to consider how a single register differs between varieties of English (e.g., Baker & Eggington 1999;van Rooy & Terblanche 2009), or how multiple registers vary across different varieties of English (e.g., Xiao 2009;Kruger & van Rooy 2018). Most applications of the multidimensional approach have focused on synchronic data, with a more limited application of the method to analyze diachronic register change in English (e.g., Biber & Finegan 1989;Atkinson 2001;Kruger & Smith 2018).…”

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Register Change in the British and Australian Hansard (1901-2015)

Kruger

Rooy

Smith

2019

Journal of English Linguistics

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“Colloquialization,” and anti-colloquial effects such as “densification,” have been shown to shape register change in English, with Australian English showing stronger effects of colloquiality than British English. Parliamentary Hansard records are at the intersection of writing and speech and are subject to various influencing factors possibly leading to change in this register, which we represent in a conceptual model. We apply Biber’s (1988) method of multidimensional analysis to examine the co-occurrence of linguistic features in the British and Australian Hansard over five consecutive time periods. The data provide evidence of shared as well as differentiated effects of colloquialization and densification across the two varieties. The evidence also points to a new type of anti-colloquial trend observed in the parliamentary register, whereby presentation of information appears to be taking the place of a more interactive and interpersonally oriented style, a trend we term “monologization.”

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“…See http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/ for a detailed list of the CLAWS POS tags. Precision and recall rates were not calculated here as previous work carried out on ICLE showed that POS tag assignation with CLAWS was highly accurate (Granger et al, ; Van Rooy & Schäfer, ).…”

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Capturing L2 Accuracy Developmental Patterns: Insights From an Error‐Tagged EFL Learner Corpus

Thewissen

2013

The Modern Language Journal

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The present article addresses the issue of second language accuracy developmental trajectories and shows how they can be captured via an error-tagged version of an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learner corpus. The data used in this study were extracted from the International Corpus of Learner English (Granger et al., 2009) and consist of a total of 223 learner essays. Each composition was (a) manually and exhaustively annotated for errors following the Louvain errortagging taxonomy (Dagneaux, Denness, & Granger, 1998) and (b) individually rated by two (sometimes three) testing experts according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (Council of Europe, 2001) descriptors for linguistic competence. As a result, each text was assigned a B1 (lower intermediate), B2 (upper intermediate), C1 (advanced), or C2 (near-native) score. A refined counting method, potential occasion analysis, which relies on both an error-tagged and a part-of-speech-tagged version of the learner data, was used to quantify the errors. This allowed the analysis to trace the type of development displayed by more than 40 error types along the B1-C2 proficiency range. The results indicate that the EFL error developmental patterns tend to be dominated by progress and stabilization trends and that progress is often located between B1 and B2.

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A multi-dimensional analysis of a learner corpus

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Social and linguistic perspectives on variability in world Englishes

Social and linguistic perspectives on variability in world Englishes

Register Change in the British and Australian Hansard (1901-2015)

Capturing L2 Accuracy Developmental Patterns: Insights From an Error‐Tagged EFL Learner Corpus

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