The effect of time and dimensions of collocational relationship on phraseological accuracy
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Stefania Spina
Abstract
This study investigates if and to what extent time affects phraseological accuracy in Chinese learners of Italian. The longitudinal analysis focuses on lexical combinations within the adjectival modifier dependency (noun + adjective and adjective + noun) and the verb + direct object dependency. In addition, the effect on accuracy of different dimensions of collocational relationship is considered. To date, little empirical evidence has been made available about the degree to which some of these dimensions (the repetition, strength, exclusivity and directionality, represented by the measures of frequency, Mutual Information, logDice and DeltaP) affect phraseological accuracy. Results of a mixed-effect model show that time and logDice are significant predictors of phraseological accuracy, and that the time effect varies as a function of combination type.
Abstract
This study investigates if and to what extent time affects phraseological accuracy in Chinese learners of Italian. The longitudinal analysis focuses on lexical combinations within the adjectival modifier dependency (noun + adjective and adjective + noun) and the verb + direct object dependency. In addition, the effect on accuracy of different dimensions of collocational relationship is considered. To date, little empirical evidence has been made available about the degree to which some of these dimensions (the repetition, strength, exclusivity and directionality, represented by the measures of frequency, Mutual Information, logDice and DeltaP) affect phraseological accuracy. Results of a mixed-effect model show that time and logDice are significant predictors of phraseological accuracy, and that the time effect varies as a function of combination type.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Complexity, accuracy and fluency in learner corpus research 1
- Investigating the scopes of textual metrics for learner level discrimination and learner analytics 21
- Syntactic complexity measures as linguistic correlates of proficiency level in learner Russian 51
- Development of L2 writing complexity 81
- Phraseological complexity in EFL learners’ spoken production across proficiency levels 115
- Persistent errors in spoken English among Taiwanese and Czech learners at CEFR B2 and C1 137
- Measuring lexical accuracy 159
- The effect of time and dimensions of collocational relationship on phraseological accuracy 181
- Interaction between grammatical accuracy and syntactic complexity at different proficiency levels 209
- Accuracy, syntactic complexity and task type at play in examination writing 241
- Contextualizing fluency in advanced spoken learner language 273
- Exploring the use of repeats in learners’ native and interlanguage production 299
- Index 325
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Complexity, accuracy and fluency in learner corpus research 1
- Investigating the scopes of textual metrics for learner level discrimination and learner analytics 21
- Syntactic complexity measures as linguistic correlates of proficiency level in learner Russian 51
- Development of L2 writing complexity 81
- Phraseological complexity in EFL learners’ spoken production across proficiency levels 115
- Persistent errors in spoken English among Taiwanese and Czech learners at CEFR B2 and C1 137
- Measuring lexical accuracy 159
- The effect of time and dimensions of collocational relationship on phraseological accuracy 181
- Interaction between grammatical accuracy and syntactic complexity at different proficiency levels 209
- Accuracy, syntactic complexity and task type at play in examination writing 241
- Contextualizing fluency in advanced spoken learner language 273
- Exploring the use of repeats in learners’ native and interlanguage production 299
- Index 325
