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<p>The paper deals with the acquisition of Slovak word order in written texts of students of Slovak as a foreign language. Its attention is focused on identifying the correct and incorrect placement of enclitic components, and their erroneous usage is analysed with respect to different investigated variables (types of enclitic components, types of syntactic construction, distance from lexical/syntactic anchor, and realization in pre- or post-verbal position). The paper also pays attention to the error rate regarding individual proficiency levels of students, and error distribution in two language groups, Slavic and Non-Slavic learners, is compared.</p>
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The paper deals with the acquisition of Slovak word order in written texts of students of Slovak as a foreign language. Its attention is focused on identifying the correct and incorrect placement of enclitic components, and their erroneous usage is analysed with respect to different investigated variables (types of enclitic components, types of syntactic construction, distance from lexical/syntactic anchor, and realization in pre- or post-verbal position). The paper also pays attention to the error rate regarding individual proficiency levels of students, and error distribution in two language groups, Slavic and Non-Slavic learners, is compared.

Acquiring Word Order in Slovak as a Foreign Language: Comparison of Slavic and Non-Slavic Learners Utilizing Corpus Data

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The paper deals with the acquisition of Slovak word order in written texts of students of Slovak as a foreign language. Its attention is focused on identifying...

Acquiring Word Order in Slovak as a Foreign Language: Comparison of Slavic and Non-Slavic Learners Utilizing Corpus Data

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 353 - 370

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0033

Keywords
word order, enclitics, error analysis, syntactic complexity, Slavic learners, Non-Slavic learners, acquisition stages, interlanguage

© 2021 Martina Ivanová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Acquiring Word Order in Slovak as a Foreign Language: Comparison of Slavic and Non-Slavic Learners Utilizing Corpus Data

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 353 - 370

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0033

Keywordsword order, enclitics, error analysis, syntactic complexity, Slavic learners, Non-Slavic learners, acquisition stages, interlanguage

© 2021 Martina Ivanová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
word order, enclitics, error analysis, syntactic complexity, Slavic learners, Non-Slavic learners, acquisition stages, interlanguage