Formulaic Language. Volume 2: Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations

390 Pages·2016·2.85 MB·English

by  Corrigan Roberta et al. (Editors)

Formulaic Language
Typological Studies in Language (TSL)
A companion series to the journal Studies in Language. Volumes in this
series are functionally and typologically oriented, covering specific topics in
language by collecting together data from a wide variety of languages and
language typologies.
General Editor
Michael Noonan
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Assistant Editors
Spike Gildea Suzanne Kemmer
University of Oregon Rice University
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Wallace Chafe Matthew S. Dryer Paul J. Hopper
Santa Barbara Buffalo Pittsburgh
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Bernard Comrie John Haiman Andrej A. Kibrik
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Volume 83
Formulaic Language. Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality,
and functional explanations.
Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali
and Kathleen M. Wheatley
Formulaic Language
volume 2
Acquisition, loss, psychological reality,
and functional explanations
Edited by
Roberta Corrigan
Edith A. Moravcsik
Hamid Ouali
Kathleen M. Wheatley
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Formulaic Language : volume 2 : acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional
explanations / edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali
and Kathleen M. Wheatley.
p. cm. (Typological Studies in Language, issn 0167-7373 ; v. 83)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
 1.  Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) 2.  Linguistic models.  I. Corrigan, Roberta.
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This book is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend and colleague
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this book would not have happened without Mickey’s enthusiastic leadership,
encouragement, and loving attention.

Table of contents
VOLUME II: ACQUISITION, LOSS, PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITY,
AND FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATIONS
Preface ix
Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulae xi
Roberta Corrigan, Edith Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali & Kathleen Wheatley
Part I. Acquisition and loss
Repetition and reuse in child language learning 297
Colin Bannard & Elena Lieven
Formulaic language from a learner perspective:
What the learner needs to know 323
Britt Erman
The acquisition and development of the topic marker wa in L1 Japanese:
The role of NP-wa? in mother-child interaction 347
Chigusa Kurumada
Formulaic expressions in intermediate EFL writing assessment 375
Aaron Ohlrogge
Connecting the dots to unpack the language 387
Ann M. Peters
The effect of awareness-raising on the use of formulaic constructions 405
Susanne Rott
Can L2 learners productively use Japanese tense-aspect markers?
A usage-based approach 423
Natsue Sugaya & Yasuhiro Shirai
Formulaic and novel language in a ‘dual process’ model of language
competence: Evidence from surveys, speech samples, and schemata 445
Diana Van Lancker Sidtis
iii Formulaic Language: Volume II
Part II. Psychological reality
The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (2):
Affective priming 473
Nick C. Ellis & Eric Frey
Frequency and the emergence of prefabs: Evidence from monitoring 499
Vsevolod Kapatsinski & Joshua Radicke
Part III. Functional explanations
Formulaic argumentation in scientific discourse 523
Heidrun Dorgeloh & Anja Wanner
Accepting responsibility at defendants’ sentencing hearings:
No formulas for success 545
M. Catherine Gruber
Decorative symmetry in ritual (and everyday) language 567
John Haiman & Noeurng Ourn
Time management formulaic expressions in English and Thai 589
Shoichi Iwasaki
Routinized uses of the first person expression for me in conversational
discourse 615
Joanne Scheibman
Author index i–1
Subject index i–11
Preface
This two-volume collection presents revised versions of a selection of papers from
the 25th UWM Linguistics Symposium on Formulaic Language, held on April
18–21, 2007 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. To our knowledge, it was
one of the first conferences specifically devoted to this topic.
We are grateful to Joan Bybee, who suggested the topic for this conference,
and to Michael Noonan, who took primary responsibility for organizing it. We
gratefully acknowledge the funds provided by various units of the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee – the Department of English, the Department of Foreign
Languages and Linguistics, the Center for International Education, and the College
of Letters and Science – as well as those that came from royalties derived from the
Benjamins’ book series “Typological Studies in Language” due to the generosity
of the editors of the previous volumes of this series and of Cornelis Vaes of John
Benjamins. Heart-felt thanks also to our colleagues, students, and office staff for
their invaluable help in putting on this event.
The indices were prepared by Deborah Mulvaney. We are grateful to her for her
work performed under difficult conditions.
This preface and the introductory paper to follow are included in both volumes.