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标题：Detecting Syntactic Contamination in Emigrants: The English of Finnish Australians
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作者：Timo Lauttamus ; John Nerbonne ; Wybo Wiersma 等
期刊名称：SKY Journal of Linguistics
印刷版ISSN：1456-8438
电子版ISSN：1796-279X
出版年度：2007
卷号：20
出版社：The Linguistic Association of Finland
摘要：The paper discusses an application of a technique to tag a corpus containing the English of Finnish Australians automatically and to analyse the frequency vectors of part-of- speech (POS) trigrams using a permutation test. Our goal is to detect the linguistic sources of the syntactic variation between two groups, the !(R)Adults,!who had received their school education in Finland, and the !(R)Juveniles,!ˉ who were educated iAustralia. The idea of the technique is to utilise frequency profiles of trigrams of POS categories as indicators of syntactic distance between the groups and then examine potential effects of language contact and language (!(R)vernacular!ˉ) universals in SLA.he results show that some features we describe as !(R)contaminating!ˉ the internguage of the Adults can be best attributed to Finnish substratum transfer. However, there are other features in our data that may also be ascribed to more !°universal!± primitiveor universal properties of the language faculty. As we have no evidence of potential contamination at the early stages of the Juveniles!ˉ L2 acquisition, we cannot yet prove or refut our hypothesis about the strength of contact influence as opposed to that of the other factors.