Replication Data for: The acquisition of the English dative alternation by Russian Foreign Language Learners (doi:10.18710/TDUFPI)

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Replication Data for: The acquisition of the English dative alternation by Russian Foreign Language Learners

doi:10.18710/TDUFPI

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De Cuypere, Ludovic; De Coster, Evelyn; Baten, Kristof, 2023, "Replication Data for: The acquisition of the English dative alternation by Russian Foreign Language Learners", https://doi.org/10.18710/TDUFPI, DataverseNO, V1

Replication Data for: The acquisition of the English dative alternation by Russian Foreign Language Learners

doi:10.18710/TDUFPI

De Cuypere, Ludovic (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Ghent University)

De Coster, Evelyn (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Ghent University)

Baten, Kristof (Ghent University)

Ghent University

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RStudio

DataverseNO

The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)

De Cuypere, Ludovic

De Cuypere, Ludovic

2023-07-07

https://doi.org/10.18710/TDUFPI

Arts and Humanities, English, Russian, dative alternation, transfer, Processibility Theory, grammaticality judgement task, 100-split task, Double Object Construction, to-dative construction, Theme, Recipient, accusative, dative, rating experiment, Foreign Language Acquisition, English as a foreign language, preposition, case, object order

<p> <b>Dataset abstract</b> </p> <p> The dataset contains the ratings for a 100-split task performed by Russian learners of English. 272 Russian learners were subdivided into two groups. One group rated 25 English sentences containing the dative alternation taken from the British National Corpus (BNC), the other group rated 25 Russian sentences (translations of the English ones) with the ditransitive alternation. The English sentences with the double object construction were translated into Russian sentences with the equivalent recipient/dative-theme /accusative order, while the English sentences with the to-dative construction were translated with the equivalent theme/accusative-Recipient/dative order. The dataset contains information about the Participants (Age, Gender, Year of Study, Study domain), the test Sentences (the reference to the BNC, the sentences in both languages, the observed dative construction in the BNC, and its main verb), and the Ratings for each Sentence by each Participant. The replication R code is additionally shared together with the output as an html-file. </p> <p> <b>Article abstract</b> </p> <p> Ditransitive verbs include a “recipient” and a “theme” argument (in addition to the subject). The choice of putting one argument before the other (i.e., either recipient-theme, or theme-recipient) is associated with multiple discourse-pragmatic factors. Languages have different options to code the ditransitive construction. In English, a ditransitive verb can take two alternating patterns (“the dative alternation”): the Double Object Construction (DOC) (John gives Mary a book) and the to-dative construction (to-dative) (John gives a book to Mary). In Russian, theme and recipient are marked by accusative and dative, respectively. In addition, word order is flexible and either the accusative-marked theme (Pjotr dal knigu Marii), or the dative-marked recipient (Pjotr dal Marii knigu) can come first. This article reports on two sentence rating experiments (acceptability judgments) to test whether Russian learners of English transfer their preferences about the theme-recipient order in Russian to the ditransitive construction in English. A total of 272 Russian students were tested. Results for both tests showed a great variability in the ratings. A comparison of the ratings seems to suggest a small positive correlation, but no statistically significant relation was found between the order preferences in both languages. However, we found a small preference for the use of the to-dative, which we relate to the language acquisition process as proposed by Processability Theory</p>

2012-2013

Russian Federation

Saint-Petersburg

sentence rating experiment

acceptability judgments

100-split task

grammaticality judgement task

The British National Corpus, version 3. 2007. Distributed by Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, on behalf of the BNC Consortium. URL: <a href="http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/" title="BNC" target="_blank">http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/</a>.

<p>BNCweb can be accessed via <a href="http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk" title="BNC" target="_blank">http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Examples of usage taken from the British National Corpus (BNC) were obtained and are redistributed under the terms stated in the <em>Terms</em> section of this dataset.</p>

<p>This Dataset, "Replication Data for: The acquisition of the English dative alternation by Russian Foreign Language Learners" (hereafter: Dataset), may be reused according to the <strong>CLARIN PUB+BY+LRT</strong> license as described below:</p> <p></p> <p><strong>Copyright holders:</strong> Ludovic De Cuypere, Evelyn De Coster, Kristof Baten</p> <p></p> <p><strong>Resource: </strong>Replication Data for: The acquisition of the English dative alternation by Russian Foreign Language Learners</p> <p></p> <p>The Copyright holders grant the End-User a free, non-exclusive and perpetual (for the duration of the copyright) right to use and make copies of the Resource, distribute copies and present the Resource in public as such, as modified, or as part of a compilation or derived work. The permission applies to all known or future modes and means of communication and includes a right to make modifications enabling the use of the Resource on other devices and in other formats.</p> <p></p> <p>Additional license terms as defined in the <em>Condition Definitions</em> section below:<br> <ul> <li><strong>General Use conditions:</strong> BY, LRT</li> </ul> <p></p> <p><strong>Condition Definitions:</strong><br> <ul> <li><strong>BY:</strong> Attribution, i.e. acknowledgement of authorship, is required.</li> <li><strong>LRT:</strong> The content is available only for language research and technology development.</li> </ul></p> <p></p> <p>This license has been made in compliance with copyright agreements by WIPO – the World Intellectual Property Organization. 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Additional rights to the Resource may be agreed separately in writing.</p> <p></p> <p><strong>Reused sources:</strong></p> <p></p> <p>This Dataset contains examples of usage from the British National Corpus (<a href="http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/" title="BNC" target="_blank">http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/</a>) (<strong>BNC:</strong>), used under the BNC User Licence (cf. <a href="http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/docs/licence.html" title="BNC User Licence" target="_blank">http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/docs/licence.html</a>), which among other things states the following: <ul> <li>"The BNC Consortium hereby grants according to the terms and conditions set out herein and in consideration of the payments specified herein a non-exclusive, non-transferable Licence to the Licensee to use the BNC Processed Material for the purposes of linguistic research and/or the development of language products".</li> <li>"There is no restriction on the use of the Licensee's Results except that the Licensee may not publish in print or electronic form or exploit commercially in any form whatsoever any extracts from the BNC Processed Material other than those permitted under the fair dealings provision of copyright law."</li> </ul> </p> <p></p> <p>This Dataset contains 26 sentences / parts of sentences extracted from BNC. These (parts of) sentences are extracted from different texts and do thus not contain any coherent larger parts of any single text. Therefore, publishing these examples of usage in the Dataset is considered to be permitted under the fair dealings provision of copyright law; see details in section <em>Fair dealing</em> below.</p> <p></p> <p><strong>Fair dealing:</strong></p> <p>According to UK Copyright Law (cf. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright#fair-dealing" title="Fair dealing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright#fair-dealing</a>), “[f]actors that have been identified by the courts as relevant in determining whether a particular dealing with a work is fair include:</p> <ul> <li>"does using the work affect the market for the original work? If a use of a work acts as a substitute for it, causing the owner to lose revenue, then it is not likely to be fair"</li> <li>"is the amount of the work taken reasonable and appropriate? Was it necessary to use the amount that was taken? Usually only part of a work may be used”</li> </ul> <p></p> <p>The corpus extracts used in this Dataset may be said to represent fair dealing according to both of these factors: <ul> <li>The extracted material does not affect the market for the original work, as it is unlikely that any researcher would refrain from using the corpus or the original works which the corpus is based on because of the availability of the extracted material contained in this Dataset.</li> <li>The amount of the extracted work is reasonable and appropriate as it was necessary to carry out the study, and as it is necessary to replicate the study. Therefore, publishing these examples of usage is not considered to infringe the copyright of the original IPR holders.</li> </ul></p>

De Cuypere, L., De Coster, E., & Baten, K. (2014). The acquisition of the English dative alternation by Russian foreign language learners. PHRASIS (GENT) : STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, (2), 187–212.

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De Cuypere, L., De Coster, E., & Baten, K. (2014). The acquisition of the English dative alternation by Russian foreign language learners. PHRASIS (GENT) : STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, (2), 187–212.

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