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Conventional Expressions. Investigating Pragmatics and Processing
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Edmonds, Amanda – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
Conventional expressions, a subset of multiword units, are the target of the current study, which aims to address questions concerning native and nonnative speakers' knowledge and processing of a set of such strings. To this end, 13 expressions identified as conventional in the southwest of France were tested in an online contextualized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, French, Language Processing
On the Representation of Conventional Expressions in L1-English L2-French
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Edmonds, Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Phraseological phenomena--ranging from idioms to collocations to discourse organizers--have received increasing attention in second language acquisition (SLA), and examinations of such strings are characterized by two distinct perspectives on formulaic language. On the one hand, different speech acts seem to be commonly realized using certain…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English, Native Language, Foreign Countries