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Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.18710/Q1AVUU |
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Publication Date
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2023-11-20 |
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Title
| Replication Data for: The acquisition of Differential Object Marking: a longitudinal study on L1 Dutch learners of Hindi as a foreign language |
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Author
| Ponnet, Aaricia (Ghent University) - ORCID: 0000-0001-9708-3807
De Cuypere, Ludovic (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Ghent University) - ORCID: 0000-0002-0050-1097 |
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Point of Contact
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De Cuypere, Ludovic (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Ghent University) |
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Description
| Dataset abstract
The dataset includes annotated spoken corpus data of N = 3685 utterances, created with a picture description task that elicited semi-spontaneous oral production data from N = 5 learners of Hindi at a Belgian institute. Following a longitudinal design, we gathered data during four observations. These found place in the second (Time1), third (Time2; Time3) and fourth semester (time4) of their Hindi course trajectory. The corpus data is annotated for (i) Learner, (ii) Time of elicitation, (iii) the use of -ko as a Differential Object Marker and (iv) -ko as another marker, as well as multiple features associated with ko-marking, including: (v) Specificity of the Direct Object, (vi) Animacy of the Direct Object, (vii) the (lemmatized) sentence verb, (viii) the (lemmatized) head of the Direct Object Noun Phrase, (ix) the (lemmatized) head of the Noun Phrase associated with other uses of -ko, and (x) the semantic role of these other uses of the ko-marker. (2023-01-30)
Article abstract
This article investigates the acquisition of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Hindi as a foreign language based on a longitudinal study with five L1 Dutch speakers. A first aim of the study is to verify findings in previous cross-sectional studies. DOM in Hindi is governed by animacy and specificity and is particularly hard to acquire, with heritage speakers and advanced L2 learners omitting the direct object (DO) marker. A second aim is to investigate whether we can find evidence of either L1 influence, item-based learning or semantic mapping, testing explanations by Montrul et al. (2012, 2015, 2019), Narasimhan (2005, 2020) and Baten and Ponnet (2023). Data collected over four observation points confirmed high DOM omissions. Using a mixed effects logistic regression analysis, we found an increase in marking for human animate, specific DOs, and also for non-human animate and inanimate specific nouns. Our findings suggest that learners initially expand the optionality of -ko due to the complex syntactic-semantic constraints (possibly enhanced by L1 transfer) before gradually adapting to its constraints (possibly emerging through item-based learning). (2023-01-30) |
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Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
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Keyword
| Differential Object Marking
DOM
foreign language acquisition
Dutch
Hindi
ko-marking
case morphology
language learning
second language development
case
longitudinal design
data elicitation
picture description task
semi-spontaneous oral elicitation
developmental stages
argument structure
animacy
specificity
item based learning
East Asian languages
L1 Dutch
L1 transfer
semantic constraints
syntactic constraints
Processability Theory
PT |
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Related Publication
| Ponnet, A., & De Cuypere, L. (to appear). The acquisition of Differential Object Marking: a longitudinal study on L1 Dutch learners of Hindi as a foreign language. Linguistica e Filologia, 43. |
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Language
| English; Hindi |
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Producer
| Ghent University (UGent) https://www.ugent.be 
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Production Date
| 2023-01-30 |
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Production Location
| Gent |
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Funding Information
| Research Foundation - Flanders: 11G8321N |
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Distributor
| The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) (TROLLing) https://trolling.uit.no/ |
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Distribution Date
| 2023-09-01 |
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Depositor
| De Cuypere, Ludovic |
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Deposit Date
| 2023-01-25 |
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Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2017 ; End Date: 2022 |
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Data Type
| semi-spontaneous oral production data; annotated corpus data; foreign language learner data |
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Software
| MS Excel, Version: 16.16.27
ELAN, Version: 6.4
R, Version: 4.2.2
RStudio, Version: 2022.12.0 |
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Data Source
| The participants were presented with three different sets of pictures selected from a comic book (Dulieu, 1972, 1974) and pictures we took ourselves, and which cannot be shared due to privacy reasons.
Dulieu, J. (1972). Paulus de Boskabouter. De baard van Pieter. Bussum: Van Holkema & Warendorf. Dulieu, J. (1974). Paulus de Boskabouter 7: Ali Baba en de Rover. Bussum: Van Holkema & Warendorf. |
