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Using corpora in SLA research investigating word
order http//www.uam.es/woslac
Amaya Mendikoetxea (Project Leader) Cristóbal
Lozano (CEDEL2) Michael ODonnell (UAM
CorpusTool) Paul Rollinson (WriCLE)
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FUNDING
• Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, project no.
  HUM2005-01728FILO
• Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Universidad
  Autónoma de Madrid, project no. 09-SHD-01

• MAIN PURPOSE
• To analyse properties constraining word order in
  L2 grammar
• at lexicon-syntax interface
• Unaccusativity Hypothesis
• at syntax-discourse interface
• Topic, Focus

• ? WriCLE Written Corpus of Learner English
  (Paul Rollinson)
• L1 Spanish L2 English
• TARGET 1 million words (so far 600,000 words)
• Essays written by 1st and 3rd year
• students of English at the Universidad
• Autónoma de Madrid
• Data gathering
• Learner Essay profile
• Oxford Quick Placement test

• ?CEDEL2 Corpus Escrito del Español L2
  (Cristóbal Lozano)
• L1 English L2 Spanish
• TARGET 1 million words (so far 500,000 words)
• Online data collection (webpage)
• Learners from universities all over the world
  (USA, UK, Australia, Spain)
• Data gathering
• Learning background
• Spanish Placement Test (Wisconsin)
• http//www.uam.es/proyectosinv/woslac/collaboratin
  g.htm .

http//www.uam.es/woslac/cedel2.htm

• SOFTWARE UAM CorpusTooL 2.0
• (by Michael ODonnell)
• It can select and annotate a structure text /
  sentence / phrase / word.
• It can assign features to that structure cleft,
  passive, preposing, extraposition
• Automatic detection of patterns.
• XML format.

FREE DOWNLOAD from http//www.wagsoft.com/C
orpusTool/
SOME PUBLICATIONS Lozano, C. Mendikoetxea, A.
(in press). Postverbal subjects at the interfaces
in Spanish and Italian learners of L2 English a
corpus analysis. In Papp, S., Díez, B. and
Gilquin, G. (eds). Linking up contrastive and
corpus learner research. Rodopi. Lozano, C. (in
press). Selective deficits at the
syntax-discourse interface Evidence from the
CEDEL2 corpus. In Leung, Snape Sharwood-Smith
(eds). Amsterdam John Benjamins. Lozano, C.
Mendikoetxea, A. (in press). Verb-Subject order
in L2 English new evidence from the ICLE corpus.
In Actas del XXV Congreso Internacional de
AESLA. Universidad de Murcia Lozano, C.
Mendikoetxea, A. (2007). Learner corpora and the
acquisition of word order A study of the
production of Verb-Subject structures in L2
English. In M. Davies, P. Rayson, S, Hunston, P.
Danielsson (eds) Proceedings of the Corpus
Linguistics Conference 2007, University of
Birmingham. O'Donnell, M. 2008. "The UAM
CorpusTool Software for corpus annotation and
exploration". Proceedings of the XXVI Congreso de
AESLA, Almeria, Spain, 3-5 April 2008. O'Donnell,
M. 2008. " Demonstration of the UAM CorpusTool
for text and image annotation". Proceedings of
the ACL-08HLT Demo Session (CompanionVolume),
Columbus, Ohio, June 2008. Association for
Computational Linguistics. pages 1316.
Team members Amaya Mendokoetxea (project
leader),Gema Chocano, Rocío Jiménez, Cristóbal
Lozano, Susana Murcia, Michael ODonnell, Paul
Rollinson, Iván Teomiro.