Sound Evidence: The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw in Formulaic Language Research

Autor/in	Lin, Phoebe M. S.
Titel	Sound Evidence: The Missing Piece of the Jigsaw in Formulaic Language Research
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 33 (2012) 3, S.342-347 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
DOI	10.1093/applin/ams017
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Language Research; Applied Linguistics; Memory; Language Processing; Natural Language Processing; English (Second Language); Child Language; Language Acquisition; Intonation; Suprasegmentals; Second Language Learning; Linguistic Input; Phrase Structure + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Sprachforschung; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Gedächtnis; Sprachverarbeitung; Natürliche Sprache; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachbildung; Phrasenstruktur
Abstract	With the ever increasing number of studies on formulaic language, we are beginning to learn more about the processing of formulaic language (e.g. Ellis et al. 2008; Siyanova et al. 2011), its use in speech (e.g. Aijmer 1996; Wood 2012) and writing (e.g. Hyland 2008a, 2008b) and its application in natural language processing (e.g. Tschichold 2000). The problem is, however, that we know only very little about the prosody of formulaic language. This article calls for more attention to the prosody of formulaic language in applied linguistics. It is argued that prosody underlies not only the use and the validation of formulaic language, but also its learning and memory. While child first language learners' learning and memory of formulaic language is prosody-driven, English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners cannot benefit from the same mechanism in their learning of formulaic language due to the poverty of spontaneous spoken English input. The lack of opportunity to hear the prosody of formulaic language may partly explain the various difficulties EFL learners have with formulaic language. (As Provided).
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