Onko lähisukukielen vaikutus suomen ja viron omaksumiseen symmetristä? Korpuspohjaisen tutkimuksen tuloksia ja haasteita

Abstract

This paper focuses on symmetry of positive morphological first language influence on the bases of the examples of EILC and ICLFI which were chosen according to convergence and divergence between Estonian and Finnish morphological structures. Five groups of elative singular forms in texts of proficiency levels B1 and B2 according to a scale of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching and assessment (CEFR), written by Estonian learners of Finnish and Finnish learners of Estonian were analyzed.

Keywords

• second language acquisition
• corpus-based research
• cross-linguistic influence
• closely related languages
• convergence
• divergence
• morphology
• nominal inflection
• Finnish
• Estonian