Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Section 1. Introduction
4. Introduction 3
5. Learner corpora 9
6. Section 2. Compilation, annotation and exchangeability of learner corpus data
7. Developing corpus interoperability for phonetic investigation of learner corpora 33
8. Learner corpora and second language acquisition 65
9. Competing target hypotheses in the Falko corpus 101
10. Section 3. Automatic approaches to the identification of learner language features in learner corpus data
11. Using learner corpora for automatic error detection and correction 127
12. Automatic suprasegmental parameter extraction in learner corpora 151
13. Criterial feature extraction using parallel learner corpora and machine learning 169
14. Section 4. Analysis of learner corpus data
15. Phonological acquisition in the French-English interlanguage 207
16. Prosody in a contrastive learner corpus 227
17. A corpus-based comparison of syntactic complexity in NNS and NS university students’ writing 249
18. Analysing coherence in upper-intermediate learner writing 265
19. Statistical tests for the analysis of learner corpus data 287
20. Index 311