This paper studies longitudinal changes that occur in academic learner Finnish. The approach is data-driven, and it shares the usage-based view of language. The data are part of the Corpus of Advanced Learner Finnish and the studied features are determined statistically by tracing the morphological forms that show the clearest changes in their frequency during the observation period of 16 months. Features found to depict such changes are then studied in greater detail to find out the constructional nature and possible reason for the observed change. The results show that the use of the preterite tense constructions decreases while the present tense constructions increases and that the change is not due to any single lexical unit. The use also becomes quantitatively more native-like. The change is likely due to emergence of a new linguistic register — academic Finnish — and the results thus support the usage-based theory of language acquisition.
2024. Obscuring the Agent in L2 Finnish: A Dynamic Usage-Based Approach to Development. Nordand 19:2 ► pp. 106 ff.
Poehner, Matthew E. & Xiaofei Lu
2024. Sociocultural Theory and Corpus‐Based English Language Teaching. TESOL Quarterly 58:3 ► pp. 1256 ff.
Ivaska, Ilmari, Mirva Johnson & Tommi Kurki
2023. Identifying the dialectal background of American Finnish speakers using a supervised machine-learning model. Nordic Journal of Linguistics► pp. 1 ff.
Ivaska, Ilmari & Silvia Bernardini
2020. Constrained language use in Finnish: A corpus-driven approach. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 43:1 ► pp. 33 ff.
Ivaska, Ilmari
2017. Motivation, Vision, and Future-Self L2 Images among Students of Nordic and Baltic Languages. Scandinavian Studies 89:1 ► pp. 115 ff.
2017. Learner language morphology as a window to crosslinguistic influences: A key structure analysis. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 40:2 ► pp. 225 ff.
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