A multi-corpus approach to the placement of however

Nativeness vs expertise

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22299367
AutoresMaïté Dupont (0000-0002-9901-5813, UCLouvain), Sylviane Granger (0000-0002-0047-2142, UCLouvain)
Ano2025
Volume176
Fascículo2
Páginas161-183
Data de publicação2025-12-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0019-0829 • E-ISSN: 1783-1490
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/itl.25002.dup
OpenAlexW4414250291
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas29

While in recent years, many studies have been devoted to the frequency of connectors in second-language (L2) writing, the issue of connector placement has received scant attention. In this study we focus on the highly frequent and mobile connector however to identify L2 learners’ placement preferences. The study aims to contribute to the current debate around the notions of nativeness/non-nativeness and expertise/noviceness, and for this purpose relies on three corpora that differ in terms of nativeness and expertise. The results show that novice writers with English as a first language (L1) are not significantly different from novice writers from other L1s, both populations favouring initial positioning of however , while expert writers display more flexible positioning

Focus (optics) · Key (lock) · Mobile device · Natural language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Second Language Acquisition and Learning