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TAKEI Mitsuko
Department Hiroshima shudo University The Faculty of Global and Community Studies Position Professor |
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| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2013/01 |
| Type | Articles |
| Title | A Centering Analysis of a Comparable Learner/Native-speaker Corpus |
| Contribution Type | Co-Authored Publication |
| Journal | Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics |
| Journal Type | Another Country |
| Volume, Issue, Pages | pp.275-279 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Author and coauthor | ◎Mitsuko Yamura-Takei & Etsuko Yoshida |
| Details | This corpus study attempts to explicate learner-specific tendencies in discourse-level features, rather than well-studied lexco-grammatical patterns, with a particular attention to coherence created by reference to discourse entities. The data, collected from 63 learners of English at a university in Japan (EL) and 34 native speakers of English at a U.S. university (ENS), was analyzed in the framework of Centering Theory (Grosz et al., 1995). The analysis results provided us with some similarities and differences between EL and ENS data in the distribution of the TRANSITION types and their sequence patterns. |