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T1 Is this an ice house or a house of ice? A study of the production, judgment and interpretation of English NN compounds in L1 Spanish L2 English adults.
A1 Toquero Pérez, Luis Miguel
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Inglés (Lengua) - Estudio y enseñanza - Estudiantes extranjeros
K1 Inglés (Lengua) - Gramática
AB This dissertation investigates how English noun-noun (NN) compoundproperties such as directionality, productivity and semantic interpretation areused by two groups of L1 Spanish L2 English adults with different proficiencylevels: B2 and C2. English NN compounds differ from Spanish ones indirectionality and productivity. Therefore, B2 participants are predicted to showmore problems when producing and judging compounds due to the influence ofthe L1 while C2 participants are expected to not have these difficulties.Moreover, the dissertation attempts to shed light on the semantic relationsimplied when interpreting novel NN compounds in order to establish a hierarchythat may account for any differences between both groups. The results show thatboth groups of participants have a high success rate when producing and judgingNN compounds and that the role transfer plays is not crucial. The data alsodemonstrate that both groups favor the same semantic relations and in the samehierarchical order. The lack of important differences between the twoproficiency groups suggests that in this area of grammar neither proficiency norL1 influence affect the L2 grammar.
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/18900
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/18900
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 03-dic-2024