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Developments within the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) have meant that scholars are increasingly engaging with corpora and corpus-based resources, providing a source of “‘authentic’ language” to learners and educators (Mitchell 2020: 254), and contributing to “state-of-the-art research methodologies” (Deshors and Gries 2023: 164). However, there are areas in which progress can still be made, particularly in the area of metadata, such as information about the speaker and contexts of the language use, as well as increased variety in the text types and genres of corpora used to develop SLA materials (Paquot 2022: 36). This post discusses one such possibility for increasing the variety of text types and providing a rich source of authentic language that can be used to create engaging SLA materials, particularly for young people learning German, namely the use of the NottDeuYTSch corpus (to download the corpus in a variety of formats, see Cotgrove 2018).
Time-based data models and the Text Encoding Initiative’s guidelines for transcription of speech
(2005)
As a result of legal restrictions the Google Ngram Corpora datasets are a) not accompanied by any metadata regarding the texts the corpora consist of and the data are b) truncated to prevent an indirect conclusion from the n-gram to the author of the text. Some of the consequences of this strategy are discussed in this article.
In a recent paper published in the Journal of Language Evolution, Kauhanen, Einhaus & Walkden (KEW) challenge the results presented in one of my papers (Koplenig, Royal Society Open Science, 6, 181274 (2019)), in which I tried to show through a series of statistical analyses that large numbers of L2 (second language) speakers do not seem to affect the (grammatical or statistical) complexity of a language. To this end, I focus on the way in which the Ethnologue assesses language status: a language is characterised as vehicular if, in addition to being used by L1 (first language) speakers, it should also have a significant number of L2 users. KEW criticise both the use of vehicularity as a (binary) indicator of whether a language has a significant number of L2 users and the idea of imputing a zero proportion of L2 speakers to non-vehicular languages whenever a direct estimate of that proportion is unavailable. While I recognise the importance of post-publication commentary on published research, I show in this rejoinder that both points of criticism are explicitly mentioned and analysed in my paper. In addition, I also comment on other points raised by KEW and demonstrate that both alternative analyses offered by KEW do not stand up to closer scrutiny.
In der Arbeit wird ein Verfahren zur Ermittlung der Zweitsprachkenntnisse bei der Einschulung behandelt, das auf der Profilanalyse basiert. Zuerst werden allgemeine Fragen der Sprachstandsdiagnose bei Kindern ohne Schriftsprachkenntnisse und einige Aspekte des Zweitspracherwerbs, unter ihnen Regelbildungsprozesse behandelt. Dann wird die linguistische Basis der Profilanalyse vorgestellt, wie sie aus dem ZISA-Projekt heraus für Deutsch als Zweitsprache entwickelt wurde. Im Kern des Verfahrens steht die Erkenntnis, dass die Stellung verbaler Elemente in bestimmten Schritten erworben wird. Aus der Kritik an dem ursprünglich von Clahsen vorgelegten Entwurf werden Grundlagen für eine revidierte Vorgehensweise entwickelt. Daran schließt sich eine Diskussion des Verhältnisses zwischen den Phrasenstrukturen und damit zusammenhängenden Eigenschaften der Lernersprache an. Mit den Mitteln der funktionalen Pragmatik wird die Stellung vor dem Finitum (Prä-V2) in ihrer Funktionalität für die deutsche Sprache behandelt. Diese Zusammenhänge werden in einem empirischen Teil exemplarisch an Lerneräußerungen überprüft und herausgearbeitet, die für die jeweiligen Erwerbsstufen stehen. Der Beitrag schließt mit einem Resümee und Vorschlägen für die weitere Forschung. Im Anhang wird ein revidierter Profilbogen und ein von LehrerInnen vereinfachtes Modell eines Profilbogens dokumentiert. Weiterhin enthält der Anhang die
vollständigen Transkriptionen der untersuchten Lerneräußerungen.
This paper focuses on language change based on shifting social norms, in particular with regard to the debate on language and gender. It is a recurring argument in this debate that language develops "naturally" and that "severe interventions" - such as gender-inclusive language is often claimed to be - in the allegedly "organic" language system are inappropriate and even "dangerous". Such interventions are, however, not unprecedented. Socially motivated processes of language change are neither unusual nor new. We focus in our contribution on one important political-social space in Germany, the German Bundestag. Taking other struggles about language and gender in the plenaries of the Bundestag as a starting point, our article illustrates that language and gender has been a recurring issue in the German Bundestag since the 1980s. We demonstrate how this is reflected in linguistic practices of the Bundestag, by the use of a) designations for gays and lesbians; b) pair forms such as Bürgerinnen und Bürger (female and male citizens); and c) female forms of addresses and personal nouns ('Präsidentin' in addition to 'Präsident'). Lastly, we will discuss implications of these earlier language battles for the currently very heated debate about gender-inclusive language, especially regarding new forms with gender symbols like the asterisk or the colon (Lehrer*innen, Lehrer:innen; male*female teachers) which are intended to encompass all gender identities.
In dem Beitrag werden jüngste Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Sprachpolitik, der Bildungspolitik und der Integrationspolitik in Deutschland dargestellt, die ein neues Verhältnis zur Mehrsprachigkeit erkennen lassen und die Schaffung zweisprachiger Bildungseinrichtungen ermöglichen. Die deutsche Version dieses Beitrags ist nicht veröffentlicht, wohl aber die russische Version "Политические рамочные условия для создания и развития двуязычных детских дошкольных учреждений в Берлине" und die englische Version "The political framework for creation and development of bilingual Kindergartens in Berlin".
In a previous study published in Nature Human Behaviour, Varnum and Grossmann claim that reductions in gender inequality are linked to reductions in pathogen prevalence in the United States between 1951 and 2013. Since the statistical methods used by Varnum and Grossmann are known to induce (seemingly) significant correlations between unrelated time series, so-called spurious or non-sense correlations, we test here whether the statistical association between gender inequality and pathogens prevalence in its current form also is the result of mis-specified models that do not correctly account for the temporal structure of the data. Our analysis clearly suggests that this is the case. We then discuss and apply several standard approaches of modelling time-series processes in the data and show that there is, at least as of now, no support for a statistical association between gender inequality and pathogen prevalence.