Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.18710/3YWQ8R |
Publication Date
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2023-03-17 |
Title
| Replication Data for: The acquisition of Hindi split-ergativity and Differential Object Marking by Dutch L1 speakers: systematicity and variation |
Author
| Ponnet, Aaricia (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, Ghent University) - ORCID: 0000-0001-9708-3807
De Cuypere, Ludovic (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Ghent University) - ORCID: 0000-0002-0050-1097 |
Point of Contact
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De Cuypere, Ludovic (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Ghent University) |
Description
| Dataset abstract
The dataset includes annotated corpus data of N = 1811 utterances based on a picture description task that elicited semi-spontaneous oral production data from 15 Dutch learners of Hindi, from four (cross-sectional) stages (Years) of the Hindi course trajectory. The corpus data is annotated for (i) Learner, (ii) Year of study of the learner, (iii) the use of ne as an ergative marker, (iv) correct usage of the ne-marker, (v) the use of ko as a Differential Object Marker, (vi) the use of ko as another marker, and multiple features associated with ne- and ko-marking, including: (vii) specificity of the Direct Object, (viii) animacy of the Direct Object, (ix) transitivity of the sentence Verb, (x) perfectivity of the sentence Verb, (xi) other uses of the ko-marker, (xii) the semantic role of these other uses of the ko-marker.
Article abstract
We investigated the acquisition of Hindi split ergativity (ne-marking) and Differential Object Marking (zero or komarking) by L1 speakers of Dutch. Both grammatical phenomena are conditioned by multiple syntactic and semantic features. On a descriptive level, the study aims to examine when and how Dutch learners acquire and apply the conditional features associated with ne- and ko-marking. A specific learner corpus was created based on a picture description task that elicited semi-spontaneous oral production data from 15 Dutch learners of Hindi, from four (cross-sectional) stages of the Hindi course trajectory. We annotated the corpus data for multiple features associated with ne- and ko-marking. Using a mixed-effects logistic regression analysis, we found an increase in the use and accuracy of each case marker over the different years of study, but individual learner profile analyses revealed considerable intersubject differences in learner behaviour. We show that it is possible to define developmental stages for the acquisition of ne- and ko-marking in line with Processability Theory.
(2022-04-13) |
Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
Keyword
| Hindi
Language Acquisition
Processibility Theory
Picture Description Task
Argument structure
East Asian Languages
Ergativity
L1 Dutch
Case
Morphology
Foreign Language Acquisition
Second Language Development
Split ergativity
Differential Object Marking
Cross-sectional design
Pseudo-longitudinal design
Semi-spontaneous oral elicitation
Developmental stages
Intersubject variation |
Related Publication
| Aaricia Ponnet & Ludovic De Cuypere (2023) The acquisition of Hindi split-ergativity and differential object marking by Dutch L1 speakers: systematicity and variation, Language Acquisition, DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2023.2195390 doi: 10.1080/10489223.2023.2195390 https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2195390 |
Language
| English; Hindi |
Producer
| Ghent University (UGent) https://www.ugent.be/ 
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Funding Information
| Research Foundation - Flanders: 11G8321N |
Distributor
| The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) (TROLLing) https://trolling.uit.no/ |
Distribution Date
| 2023-12-31 |
Depositor
| De Cuypere, Ludovic |
Deposit Date
| 2022-04-13 |
Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2015 ; End Date: 2021 |
Data Type
| semi-spontaneous oral production data; annotated corpus data; foreign language learner data |
Software
| MS Excel, Version: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016
R, Version: version 4.0.5
RStudio, Version: version 1.4.1106 |
Data Source
| The participants were presented with three different sets of pictures selected from a comic book (Dulieu, 1974, pp. ) and pictures we took ourselves, and which cannot be shared due to privacy reasons. Dulieu, J. (1974). Paulus de Boskabouter 7: Ali Baba en de Rover. Bussum: Van Holkema & Warendorf. |