Morphology, lexical priming and second language acquisition: a corpus-study on learner Finnish

• Autores: Jarmo Harri Jantunen, Sisko Brunni
• 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. 235-245
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The present article discusses morphological priming in the context of second language acquisition. Morphological priming is a characteristic of both the core and cotextual items in a phraseological unit. It occurs when a word is repeatedly encountered in certain inflectional forms. Similarly to lexical priming on the whole (e.g. collocations and other cotextual qualities), it poses challenges for language learners. The paper focuses on atypicalities in morphophonological forms and, in addition, describes errors in inflection. It is hypothesized that learners of Finnish have problems in morphological priming, and that learners whose mother tongue is closely related to the target language and has inflection produce more target-language-like phraseological units.