Cross-Linguistic Influences in the Acquisition of Nominal Compounds  

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Heltai, Pal

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 10 no. 3 (Mar. 2013), page 19-46.
Topik: cross-linguistic influences; lexical acquisition; compounds; transferability; learnability
Fulltext: Pál Heltai.pdf (325.15KB)

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This paper reports on learning experiments designed to explore the learnability of compounds by foreign language learners. The results indicate that the learnability of compounds seems to be influenced by cross-linguistic differences between L1 and L2, including morphological structure, semantic equivalence of constituents, transparency, and congruence or incongruence between metaphorical motivation. It may also be influenced by previous knowledge of the meanings of constituents, frequency and some other factors. The compounds that seem easiest to learn tend to be parallel in morphological structure with the L1 item, transparent, descriptive, nonmetaphorical, and tend to belong to a productive pattern. Learnability depends both on cross-linguistic differences and universal principles of lexical acquisition.

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