Lexical Crosslinguistic Influence and Study Abroad: Do Learners Use L1-Based Resources Less?
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
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1 | L2 is used in this paper as standing for any language acquired subsequent to the first (L1). |
Language switches | Borrowing | There’s a woman that saw all the escena [scene] |
Editing terms | She ran away but she bueno she stopped with a man [well] | |
Meta-comments | A man sees her and follows her and she no sé com es diu xoca and she finds with another man [I don’t know how to say crash] | |
Insert implicit elicit | In this time the man that was catch the first time goes to a cafeteria and takes a lot of food [cafeteria] | |
Lexical invention | They’re eating huge piece of meat a bisteak [steak] | |
False cognates | And then he presents himself [introduces] | |
Lexemic self-repairs | He doesn’t pay the com com I don’t know [how how] |
Semantic extensions | Then the man enters in a coffee and eat a lot of things [café/cafeteria] |
Calque | Both the woman and the man meet in the van of the police [the police van] |
Collocational transfer | She makes the meal [cooks/prepares the meal] |
Subcategorization—Preposition | Then he sees no the police phones to the police department [phones the police department] |
Subcategorization—Type of complement | They are sitting in the table [at the table] |
Lemmatic self-repair | There is a girl that he has hungry who is hungry |
Lemmatic transfer Total: 480 (79.5%) | semantic extensions | 244 (50.8%) |
subcategorization transfer | 82 (17.1%) | |
subcategorization CLI | 52 (10.8%) | |
calques | 58 (12.1%) | |
lemmatic self-repairs | 30 (6.25%) | |
collocational transfer | 14 (2.9%) | |
Lexemic transfer Total: 124 (20.5%) | language switches | 88 (71%) |
lexical inventions | 21 (17%) | |
false cognates | 13 (10%) | |
lexemic self-repair | 2 (2%) |
Predictor Variable | Dependent Variable | R Square | Adjusted R Square | Std. Error of the Estimate |
---|---|---|---|---|
Hours Abroad | Lexical CLI | 0.25 | 0.24 | 0.01 |
Lemmatic CLI | 0.29 | 0.27 | 0.008 | |
Language switches | 0.16 | 0.13 | 0.004 |
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Ortega, M.; Celaya, M.L. Lexical Crosslinguistic Influence and Study Abroad: Do Learners Use L1-Based Resources Less? Languages 2019, 4, 55. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4030055
Ortega M, Celaya ML. Lexical Crosslinguistic Influence and Study Abroad: Do Learners Use L1-Based Resources Less? Languages. 2019; 4(3):55. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4030055
Chicago/Turabian StyleOrtega, Mireia, and M. Luz Celaya. 2019. "Lexical Crosslinguistic Influence and Study Abroad: Do Learners Use L1-Based Resources Less?" Languages 4, no. 3: 55. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4030055