Data in context: where do analytical constructions emerge?

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ALBANESI Lorenzo LORENZOVÁ Kristýna

Rok publikování 2025
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Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

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Popis Studies on naturalistic second language acquisition in migration contexts have documented the existence of non-target morphosyntactic patterns in the interlanguages of learners with different L1/LT pairs, where a basic (i.e., morphologically unanalyzed) form of a lexical verb is combined with a functional element, such as the copula or the light verb ‘do’ (e.g. sono fermare ‘(rougly) I am I stop, i.e. I stopped’; fare dentifrici? ‘(roughly) to do toothpaste, i.e. to brush teeth’), encoding grammatical information otherwise conveyed by inflection on the main verb in the target language (see Bernini 2003; Benazzo & Starren 2007; Julien et al. 2016; Mocciaro 2020; Pfaff 1992; Starren 2001). According to Bernini (2003), these patterns are temporary compensatory strategies that tend to vanish once finiteness becomes morphologically marked on the lexical verb. However, Mocciaro (2020) has shown that in learners with low literacy, such analytical strategies may persist longer and appear more stable in the micro-diachronic development of interlanguages. Other factors may also contribute to their emergence and persistence. One is the scarcity of input in the target language, due to limited interaction with native speakers; another is the very nature of traditional data elicitation methods — such as interviews or narrative tasks — which may provide indirect input and facilitate the emergence of analytical constructions by priming specific grammatical patterns (Mocciaro 2025). In this study, we question the possible influence of such factors on the emergence of analytical constructions by reviewing two L2 corpora featuring comparable communicative tasks (e.g., interviews, narratives, picture-based descriptions), but representing different learner populations: • the European Science Foundation (ESF) corpus (Feldweg 1991; Perdue 1993), a longitudinal collection of oral data from 40 adult migrants in Europe acquiring second languages in informal immersion contexts with sporadic interaction in the L2. Fr this study, L1 Italian – L2 German; L1 Punjabi – L2 English; L1 Spanish – L2 French; L1 Turkish – L2 German); • and the MUNITA corpus, a longitudinal corpus of L2 Italian from Slavic learners (L1 Czech, Slovak, etc.) in a university setting, with limited naturalistic input and classroom-bound L2 exposure (Lorenzová & Albanesi 2025). Our methodology involves a comparative analysis of the contexts in which non-target analytical constructions occur in both corpora, controlling task types, and discourse contexts. Where possible, we will also report on learners’ profiles. The work is part of a collaborative research project that investigates, across multiple datasets, the emergence and persistence of non-target grammatical strategies in low-input environments. Following Mocciaro (2025), we will test the hypothesis that elicitation design 16 and low input jointly affect the likelihood of analytical constructions emerging and potentially stabilizing in learner varieties. The findings are expected to contribute to a broader understanding of the mechanisms of morphosyntactic development in L2 acquisition under constrained conditions, and to refine methodological reflections on how the design of communicative tasks interacts with learner output.
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