Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar

Schilk, Marco

doi:10.1075/scl.46

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“…The frequency biases that a language user stores and uses are very much determined by the language user's linguistic environment. For instance, subcategorization preferences for particular verbs may differ among varieties of English (Schilk, 2011). Therefore, these preferences may not be the same for the L2 English learners who are tested in a study as they are for the native English speakers they are compared with.…”

Section: Frequency Informationmentioning

confidence: 94%

Predictive sentence processing in L2 and L1

Kaan

2014

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There is ample evidence that native speakers anticipate upcoming information at various levels during sentence comprehension. In contrast, some studies on late second-language (L2) learners support the view that L2 learners do not anticipate information during processing, or at least, not to the same extent as native speakers do. In the current paper, I propose that native and L2 speakers are underlyingly the same as far as sentence processing mechanisms are concerned, and that potential differences in anticipatory behavior can be accounted for by the same factors that drive individual differences in native speakers; in particular, differences in frequency biases, competing information, the accuracy and consistency of the lexical representation, and task-induced effects. Suggestions for future research are provided.

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Section: Frequency Informationmentioning

confidence: 94%

Predictive sentence processing in L2 and L1

Kaan

2014

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“…This absence of progress in the standardisation of this variety prompted Mukherjee (2007) to assert that IndE has entered a 'steady state' in its development as an indigenised variety of English, with progressive forces (emergence and use of indigenised endonormative language structures) and conservative forces (insistence on upholding exonormative BrE standards) balancing each other out. This includes lexical focus marking (Balasubramanian 2009a,b;Parviainen and Fuchs 2015;Sedlatschek 2009), topicalisation, dislocation and clefts , use of determiners (Davydova 2012;Sedlatschek 2009;Sharma 2005b), verb complementation (Hoffmann andMukherjee 2007;Koch and Bernaisch 2013;Mukherjee 2010;Mukherjee and Hoffmann 2006;Mukherjee and Schilk 2008;Schilk 2011), extension of the progressive (Collins 2008;Davydova 2012;Sharma 2009), use of past tense and present perfect (Davydova 2011;Fuchs 2016/to appear;Sharma 2009;Werner 2013), use of intensifiers (Fuchs and Gut 2016/to appear) and copula omission (Sharma 2009). Even if some Indians grow up speaking English, making them native speakers in the linguistic sense of the term, attitudes to IndE cause many Indians to deny that it can be their 'mother tongue'.…”

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Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English

Fuchs¹

2016

Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics

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The series will publish studies in the general area of Speech Prosody with a particular (but non-exclusive) focus on the importance of phonetics and phonology in this field. The topic of speech prosody is today a far larger area of research than is often realised. The number of papers on the topic presented at large international conferences such as Interspeech and ICPhS is considerable and regularly increasing. The proposed book series would be the natural place to publish extended versions of papers presented at the Speech Prosody Conferences, in particular the papers presented in Special Sessions at the conference. This could potentially involve the publication of 3 or 4 volumes every two years ensuring a stable future for the book series. If such publications are produced fairly rapidly, they will in turn provide a strong incentive for the organisation of other special sessions at future Speech Prosody conferences.More information about this series at

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“…This section presents a self‐contained introduction to the linguistics that is relevant to this study. For further details we refer the interested reader to Schilk (2011), Bresnan and Hay (2008) and McArthur and McArthur (2005).…”

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Statistical Analysis of Varieties of English

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Mukherjee

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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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Linguistic corpora are databases of text which are linguistically marked up or otherwise structured and designed to be representative of a specific language.The growing availability of such corpora has brought with it opportunities for statistical analysis. The paper develops and uses statistical approaches to address questions pertaining to an important linguistic phenomenon: the use of different syntactic alternatives. We present a model-selection-based approach for determining possible driving attributes affecting verb complementation for written sentence constructions using the verb 'give' in three varieties of English. We are interested in explaining the choice of alternatives in terms of a variety of sentence level linguistic features such as the meaning of the verb, in addition to the country of origin.

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Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar

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Predictive sentence processing in L2 and L1

Predictive sentence processing in L2 and L1

Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English

Statistical Analysis of Varieties of English

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