Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Bilingualism across the lifespan: an introduction
- 2 Early differentiation of languages in bilingual children
- 3 Variation in children's ability to learn second languages
- 4 Idiomaticity as an indicator of second language proficiency
- 5 Prefabs, patterns and rules in interaction? Formulaic speech in adult learners' L2 Swedish
- 6 The imperfect conditional
- 7 Spanish, Japanese and Chinese speakers' acquisition of English relative clauses: new evidence for the headdirection parameter
- 8 Distinguishing language contact phenomena: evidence from Finnish–English bilingualism
- 9 The boustrophedal brain: laterality and dyslexia in bi-directional readers
- 10 Deterioration and creativity in childhood bilingualism
- 11 Crosslinguistic influence in language loss
- 12 Bilingualism in Alzheimer's dementia: two case studies
- 13 Language processing in the bilingual: evidence from language mixing
- Index
5 - Prefabs, patterns and rules in interaction? Formulaic speech in adult learners' L2 Swedish
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Bilingualism across the lifespan: an introduction
- 2 Early differentiation of languages in bilingual children
- 3 Variation in children's ability to learn second languages
- 4 Idiomaticity as an indicator of second language proficiency
- 5 Prefabs, patterns and rules in interaction? Formulaic speech in adult learners' L2 Swedish
- 6 The imperfect conditional
- 7 Spanish, Japanese and Chinese speakers' acquisition of English relative clauses: new evidence for the headdirection parameter
- 8 Distinguishing language contact phenomena: evidence from Finnish–English bilingualism
- 9 The boustrophedal brain: laterality and dyslexia in bi-directional readers
- 10 Deterioration and creativity in childhood bilingualism
- 11 Crosslinguistic influence in language loss
- 12 Bilingualism in Alzheimer's dementia: two case studies
- 13 Language processing in the bilingual: evidence from language mixing
- Index
Summary
Studies on learner language have shown formulaic speech to be a common phenomenon, especially in early phases of development. In this paper the occurrence of formulaic speech will be further evidenced by the results from studies on tutored adult learners' acquisition of word order rules in Swedish as a second language. The investigation of favorable/unfavorable contexts for the application of these rules in spontaneous speech showed that the rule application is often related to the actual words involved. The results thus indicate not only that memorization of strings and formulaic speech are important in language learning as a means of facilitating conversation in early learner language, but also that they affect the application of syntactic rules in several respects.
The term “formulaic speech” is used here in a broad sense and includes complete expressions like jag vet inte “I don't know”, and different types of frequent combinations of words constituting various parts of sentences, that appear to be used as ready-made units in processing. The criterion for regarding a sequence as a chunk/prefab is the learners' manifestation of them as such in their speech, as shown either by a more frequent than average correct production of a certain structure, or by errors in structures that are otherwise correct.
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- Bilingualism across the LifespanAspects of Acquisition, Maturity and Loss, pp. 73 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989
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