Morphological priming and phraseology in second language acquisition: A corpus-study on learner Finnish Cover Image

Morfologinen priming ja fraseologia vieraan kielen oppimisessa: korpustutkimus oppijansuomesta
Morphological priming and phraseology in second language acquisition: A corpus-study on learner Finnish

Author(s): Jarmo Harri Jantunen, Sisko Brunni
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühing (ERÜ)

Summary/Abstract: =is article discusses morphological priming in the 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 frequently encountered in certain morphophonological forms. Similarly to lexical priming on the whole (e.g. collocations and other cotextual qualities), it poses challenges for language learners. =e paper focuses on atypicalities in morphophonological forms and, in addition, describes errors in in@ection. 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, in which there exists in@ection, produce more target like phraseological units.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 71-100
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Estonian