Every Verb in its Right Place? A Roadmap for Operationalizing Developmental Stages in the Acquisition of L2 German
Ruppenhofer J, Schwendemann M, Portmann A, Wisniewski K, Zesch T (2024)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2024
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages Range: 6655-6670
Conference Proceedings Title: 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings
Event location: Hybrid, Torino, ITA
ISBN: 9782493814104
Abstract
Developmental stages are a linguistic concept claiming that language learning, despite its large inter-individual variance, generally progresses in an ordered, step-like manner. At the core of research has been the acquisition of verb placement by learners, as conceptualized within Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1989). The computational implementation of a system detecting developmental stages is a prerequisite for an automated analysis of L2 language development. However, such an implementation faces two main challenges. The first is the lack of a fully fleshed out, coherent linguistic specification of the stages. The second concerns the translation of the linguistic specification into computational procedures that can extract clauses from learner-produced text and assign them to a developmental stage based on verb placement. Our contribution provides the necessary linguistic specification of the stages as well as detaiiled discussion and recommendations regarding computational implementation.
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APA:
Ruppenhofer, J., Schwendemann, M., Portmann, A., Wisniewski, K., & Zesch, T. (2024). Every Verb in its Right Place? A Roadmap for Operationalizing Developmental Stages in the Acquisition of L2 German. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue (Eds.), 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings (pp. 6655-6670). Hybrid, Torino, ITA: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
MLA:
Ruppenhofer, Josef, et al. "Every Verb in its Right Place? A Roadmap for Operationalizing Developmental Stages in the Acquisition of L2 German." Proceedings of the Joint 30th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 14th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024, Hybrid, Torino, ITA Ed. Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2024. 6655-6670.
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