The left and right periphery in native and non-native speech – A comparative study between French L1/L2, Spanish L1/L2 and Swedish L1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21332932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lars Fant (0000-0003-3235-8560, Romance Languages and Classics , Humanistiska fakulteten, Stockholms Universitet , Stockholm , Sweden, corresponding author), Inge Bartning (Romance Languages and Classics , Stockholm University , Stockholm , Sweden), Rakel Österberg (0000-0002-6125-4755, Romance Languages and Classics , Stockholm University , Stockholm , Sweden) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-120 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-042X • E-ISSN: 1613-4141 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/iral-2019-0095 |
| OpenAlex | W3111687667 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 30 |
High-proficient Swedish users of L2 French and Spanish were compared with native speakers of French, Spanish and Swedish with regard to how the syntactic peripheries in natural colloquial speech are structured. Two different though interrelated aspects were included: thus a cross-linguistic analysis comparing the three native speaker groups is combined with an analysis addressing the question of the upper limits of L2 acquisition. All left peripheral (LP) and right peripheral (RP) constituents of a corpus of 110,759 words were classified in a taxonomy relying both on syntactic and functional-pragmatic criteria. The cross-linguistic analysis showed that French and Spanish L1 speakers produced significantly longer LP sequences than the Swedish L1 speakers, who, in turn, put conspicuously more weight on the RP. Significant differences between the three languages were also found with regard to several LP and RP constituent categories. The L2 acquisition-oriented analysis showed that with few exceptions the high-proficient L2 users behaved like L1 users. Although a few interlanguage-related phenomena could be observed, no instances of any clear transfer from the speaker’s L1 appeared in either L2 speaker group
First language · Interlanguage · Linguistics · Second-language acquisition · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Beyond the notion of periphery
Variation in syntactic complexity
Interactional dominance in dyadic communication
Subjects, objects and intonational phrasing in spanish and portuguese
Left/right asymmetries and the grammar of pre- vs. post-positioning in German and Swedish talk-in-interaction
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |