Collocational Competence among Polish Students of Croatian as a Foreign Language

IF 0.4 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Slavic Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-11-08 DOI:10.1353/jsl.2019.0002

Antonia Ordulj, Nikolina Sokolić

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Abstract:Collocations in the Croatian language have been described in detail (Blagus Bartolec 2014). However, research on collocational competence in Croatian as a first or foreign language is still sparse. Previously, only the factors that influence the collocational competence of Croatian native speakers (NSs) were investigated, showing that NSs have the best knowledge of collocations with high frequency and associative strength (Ordulj and Cvikić 2017). The most extensive research on collocational acquisition in Croatian as a foreign language (CFL) in heterogeneous groups was done by Ordulj (2017). This research showed that participants with lower proficiency had very poor collocational competence, while participants with higher proficiency showed an equal knowledge of noun collocations in the nominative case and in oblique cases. This paper aims to deepen previous findings and to examine productive knowledge of noun collocations based on their frequency, associative strength, morphological features, and the proficiency level of Polish students of Croatian. Collocations used in this research were collected from essays written by students of Croatian at B1 and B2 CEFR (2005) proficiency levels. The hrWaC corpus was used to count the frequency of collocations, and the associative strength of collocational constituents was assessed by native speakers of Croatian. The respondent sample comprised 27 students of Croatian in Krakow, Poland, who were divided into two proficiency level groups: lower (2nd and 3rd year of studies) and higher (4th and 5th year of studies). The influence of morphological features on collocational knowledge was tested with two fill-in-the-blank tasks containing collocations in the nominative and oblique cases. The analysis of productive tasks showed that morphological features do not influence collocational knowledge at the lower or higher proficiency level. In both cases participants produced the best results in tasks with collocations of high frequency.

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克罗地亚语波兰留学生的搭配能力

摘要：克罗地亚语中的搭配已被详细描述（Blagus Bartolec 2014）。然而，关于克罗地亚语作为第一语言或外语的搭配能力的研究仍然很少。此前，只有影响克罗地亚母语人士（NSs）搭配能力的因素被调查，表明NSs最了解高频和联想强度的搭配（Ordulj和Cvikić2017）。Ordulj（2017）对异质群体中克罗地亚语的搭配习得进行了最广泛的研究。这项研究表明，熟练程度较低的参与者的搭配能力非常差，而熟练程度较高的参与者在主格和斜格中对名词搭配的了解程度相同。本文旨在深化先前的研究结果，并根据克罗地亚语波兰学生的名词搭配频率、联想强度、形态特征和熟练程度来检验名词搭配的生产性知识。本研究中使用的搭配是从克罗地亚学生在B1和B2 CEFR（2005）水平上写的文章中收集的。hrWaC语料库用于统计搭配的频率，并由克罗地亚母语人士评估搭配成分的联想强度。受访者样本包括波兰克拉科夫的27名克罗地亚学生，他们被分为两组：低水平组（学习第二年和第三年）和高水平组（研究第四年和第五年）。用两个填空题测试了词形特征对搭配知识的影响，填空题包含主格和斜格的搭配。对生产性任务的分析表明，在较低或较高的熟练水平上，形态特征不会影响搭配知识。在这两种情况下，参与者在搭配频率高的任务中都取得了最好的结果。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Slavic Linguistics, or JSL, is the official journal of the Slavic Linguistics Society. JSL publishes research articles and book reviews that address the description and analysis of Slavic languages and that are of general interest to linguists. Published papers deal with any aspect of synchronic or diachronic Slavic linguistics – phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics – which raises substantive problems of broad theoretical concern or proposes significant descriptive generalizations. Comparative studies and formal analyses are also published. Different theoretical orientations are represented in the journal. One volume (two issues) is published per year, ca. 360 pp.