Grammatical gender in L2 Swedish in Finnish-speaking immersion students: A comparison with non-immersion students

IF 0.5 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Eeva-Liisa Nyqvist, Sinikka Lahtinen
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Abstract

Abstract Swedish grammatical gender is challenging for Finnish-speaking learners of Swedish due to its abstract meaning, the complex nature of Swedish NPs and the low salience of the morphology used to mark gender. Our study compares the expression of gender in texts written in Swedish by Finnish-speaking 12- and 15-year-old immersion students with that of 16-year-old non-immersion students. The results show that NPs with gender agreement, i.e. those with several morphemes marking gender, are more difficult than NPs with only one marker. In all informant groups, uter is significantly easier than neuter, but uter is also overused, as approximately 75% of all Swedish nouns are uter in modern Swedish. Comparisons between different informant groups show that non-immersion students often reach a significantly higher level of accuracy than immersion students, which indicates that formal teaching has a positive effect.
芬兰语浸入式学生与非浸入式学生在第二语言瑞典语中的语法性别比较
瑞典语的语法性别对讲芬兰语的瑞典语学习者来说是一个挑战,因为它的意义抽象,瑞典语np的复杂性以及用于标记性别的形态学的不显著性。我们的研究比较了12岁和15岁的芬兰语浸入式学生与16岁的非浸入式学生在瑞典语文本中的性别表达。结果表明,具有多个词素标记性别的np比只有一个词素标记性别的np更难识别。在所有的信息组中,ter明显比中性更容易使用,但ter也被过度使用,因为在现代瑞典语中,大约75%的瑞典名词都是outer。不同信息者群体之间的比较表明,非浸入式学生往往达到显著高于浸入式学生的准确性水平,这表明正式教学具有积极作用。
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