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Overuse-underuse on syntactic annotation of Falko

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<str<strong>on</strong>g>underuse</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

• L2 distributi<strong>on</strong>s are compared to L1 distributi<strong>on</strong>s<br />

• overuse, <str<strong>on</strong>g>underuse</str<strong>on</strong>g> are defined as (statistically<br />

significant) differences between the varieties<br />

• a category can be <str<strong>on</strong>g>underuse</str<strong>on</strong>g>d in L2 because<br />

– the learners do not know it<br />

– the learners do know it but (unc<strong>on</strong>sciously) avoid it<br />

→ a diagnostics for detecting structural acquisiti<strong>on</strong><br />

problems<br />

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visualizati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> overuse and<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>underuse</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

• <str<strong>on</strong>g>underuse</str<strong>on</strong>g>: cold colours<br />

• overuse: warm colours<br />

• intensity <strong>of</strong> colour signals strength <strong>of</strong><br />

overuse/<str<strong>on</strong>g>underuse</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

Underuse<br />

<str<strong>on</strong>g>Overuse</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />

• Excel add in by Amir Zeldes available at<br />

http://korpling.german.hu-berlin.de/~amir/uoaddin.htm<br />

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