Processing possessives in French as a foreign language: Design of an experiment

The paradigm of possessive determiners differs in systematic ways across languages and causes cognitive resolution problems in the interpretation of a foreign language. Based on previous investigations into cross-linguistic influences (CLI) in learners’ interpretation of possessive determiners, this...

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Main Authors:	Bergljot Behrens, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Anneliese Pitz
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Oslo 2021-07-01
Series:	Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:	https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/8954

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spelling	doaj-5de2ea44047045a49beb906d1ce476302021-07-16T13:04:26ZengUniversity of OsloOslo Studies in Language1890-96392021-07-01122Processing possessives in French as a foreign language: Design of an experimentBergljot BehrensCathrine Fabricius-HansenAnneliese PitzThe paradigm of possessive determiners differs in systematic ways across languages and causes cognitive resolution problems in the interpretation of a foreign language. Based on previous investigations into cross-linguistic influences (CLI) in learners’ interpretation of possessive determiners, this article presents the design of an experiment for testing English, German and Norwegian adult learners of French. We specify two kinds of processing problems: a direction problem (orientation towards possessor vs. possessee) and a problem of lexical parasites (‘false friends’). The experiment is directed at learners’ spontaneous interpretation of the singular possessives "son", "sa" and "ses", on account of a partly false friendship with the possessive determiners in these learners’ first languages.https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/8954
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author	Bergljot Behrens Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen Anneliese Pitz
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title	Processing possessives in French as a foreign language: Design of an experiment
title_short	Processing possessives in French as a foreign language: Design of an experiment
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publisher	University of Oslo
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description	The paradigm of possessive determiners differs in systematic ways across languages and causes cognitive resolution problems in the interpretation of a foreign language. Based on previous investigations into cross-linguistic influences (CLI) in learners’ interpretation of possessive determiners, this article presents the design of an experiment for testing English, German and Norwegian adult learners of French. We specify two kinds of processing problems: a direction problem (orientation towards possessor vs. possessee) and a problem of lexical parasites (‘false friends’). The experiment is directed at learners’ spontaneous interpretation of the singular possessives "son", "sa" and "ses", on account of a partly false friendship with the possessive determiners in these learners’ first languages.
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Processing possessives in French as a foreign language: Design of an experiment

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