L1 transfer versus fixed chunks: a learner corpus-based study of L2 German

• Autores: Margit Breckle, Heike Zinsmeister
• Localización: Twenty years of learner corpus research: looking back, moving ahead / Sylviane Granger (ed. lit.), Gaëtanelle Gilquin (ed. lit.), Fanny Meunier (ed. lit.), 2013, ISBN 978-2-87558-199-0, págs. 25-35
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study deals with the question of what strategies Chinese L2 learners of German follow when starting a declarative sentence in German. The investigation is based on the ALeSKo corpus, a linguistically annotated learner corpus of written German. In previous studies, we observed that the L2 texts show a significant overuse of sentences that start with an information-structural function in comparison to comparable L1 texts. In this paper, we pursue an alternative line of explanation that explores whether the observed difference is due to an overuse of chunks in the L2 texts. We perform a chunk classification and also automatically detect all material copied from the title and the task description - a particular type of chunk. Our findings indicate that although L2 learners use chunks to a substantial degree, an overuse with respect to the beginnings of the sentences could not be confirmed.