Embedding additive particles in the sentence information structure: How L2 learners find their way through positional and prosodic patterns.

Autor/inn/en	Andorno, Cecilia Maria; Turco, Giuseppina
Titel	Embedding additive particles in the sentence information structure: How L2 learners find their way through positional and prosodic patterns.
Quelle	In: Linguistik online, (2015) 2 (71), S. 57-79 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Abbildungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1615-3014
DOI	10.13092/lo.71.1778
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Ausdrucksfähigkeit; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Deutsch; Italienisch; Wortschatz; Erzählen; Mündlicher Ausdruck; Ausdrucksfähigkeit; Italienischunterricht; Auswahl; Empirische Forschung; Deutsch; Deutsch als Fremdsprache; Erzählen; Mündlicher Ausdruck; Wortschatz; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Italienisch; Italienischunterricht; Auswahl
Abstract	Since 1986, Klein pinpointed the 'embedding problem' among the main tasks L2 learners have to cope with in L2 speaking, the term referring to the need of linking the semantic content of a sentence to the information already available in the ongoing discourse. Research in L2acquisition has shown that, even when the lexical and morphosyntactic structures needed to express specific information configurations are in place, learners can still lack the ability to use them in the ongoing discourse according to target language preferences, thus sticking to their source language preferences (Carroll & Lambert 2003; Dimroth & Lambert 2008; Lambert, Carroll & von Stutterheim 2008). Use of additive particles can pose similar 'embedding' problems, as they typically occur in a peculiar, non-canonical information configuration, in which a given predicate - available in the ongoing discourse - is claimed to hold for a new referent, which is added to other - given, available - referents. Dimroth et al. (2010), comparing native speakers productions on the basis of the same narrative task (the Finite Story retelling), show that speakers of Germanic (Dutch, German) and Romance (French, Italian) languages differ in the way they embed additive particles in the sentence information structure. Our study focuses on the use of additive particles by intermediate learners of two language pairs (Italian L1 ) German L2 and viceversa) in the Finite Story retelling. Results show that, in embedding additive particles (IT anche, GE auch) in the sentence structure, intermediate learners tend to adopt patterns that are compatible with the L1 both at positional and at prosodic level, thus partly discarding more target languagespecific patterns. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2