none 10.1075/hsld.4.13ste John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 74764397 1695820 1419982 202507022150000008 10.1075 2025-07-02T15:50:38Z 2015-04-13T05:53:59Z 0 2211-3703 10.1075/hsld https://benjamins.com/ catalog/hsld Hagen Peukert University of Hamburg https://ror.org/00g30e956 This volume, dedicated to language transfer, starts out with state-of-the-art psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer involving studies on psycho-typological transfer, lexical interference and foreign accent. The next chapter on Transfer in Language Learning, Contact, and Change presents new empirical data from several languages (English, German, Russian, French, Italian) on various transfer phenomena ranging from second language acquisition and contact-induced change in word order to cross-linguistic influences in word formation and the lexicon. Transfer in Applied Linguistics scrutinizes, on the one hand, the external sources of language transfer by investigating bilingual resources and the school context, but also by pointing out the differences in academic language in multilingual adolescents. On the other hand, internal sources of language transfer in multilingual classrooms are illuminated. A final chapter directs its focus on methodological issues that arise when more than one language is studied systematically and it offers a solution on causal effects for the investigation of heritage language proficiencies. The chapter also includes studies that exploit more innovative methodologies on L1 identification and clitic acquisition. 4 4 29 2015 4 13 2015 9789027214171 9789027268693 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/hsld.4 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027268693 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/hsld.4/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027268693.pdf Egon Stemle EURAC Bolzano, University of Klagenfurt* https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-5526 Alexander Onysko EURAC Bolzano, University of Klagenfurt* This article focuses on automatic text classification which aims at identifying the first language (L1) background of learners of English. A particular question arising in the context of automated L1 identification is whether any features that are informative for a machine learning algorithm relate to L1-specific transfer phenomena. In order to explore this issue further, we discuss the results of a study carried out in the wake of a Native Language Identification Task. The task is based on the TOEFL11 corpus (cf. Blanchard et al. 2013), which involves a sample of 12,100 essays written by participants in the TOEFL® test from 11 different language backgrounds (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Telugu, and Turkish). The article will show our results in automatic L1 detection in the TOEFL11 corpus. These results are discussed in light of relevant transfer features which turned out to be particularly informative for automatic detection of L1 German and L1 Italian. 4 29 2015 4 13 2015 297 321 10.1075/hsld.4.13ste https://benjamins.com/catalog/hsld.4.13ste https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/hsld.4.13ste/html Automatic identification of learners’ language background based on their writing in Czech Aharodnik 1428 2013 Automatically Detecting Authors’ Native Language Ahn 2011 10.1093/llc/fqi039 10.1093/llc/18.3.235 Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification Bestgen 127 2012 Error pattern and automatic L1 identification TOEFL11: A Corpus of Non-Native English Blanchard 2013 Using other learner corpora in the 2013 NLI Shared Task Brooke 188 2013 Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification Crossley 106 2012 Detecting the first language of second language writers using automated indices of cohesion, lexical sophistication, syntactic complexity and conceptual knowledge The World Atlas of Language Structures Online Dryer 2013 Definite articles The World Atlas of Language Structures Online Dryer 2013 Order of adposition and noun phrase Author profiling for English emails Estival 31 2007 Improving native language identification with TF-IDF weighting Gebre 216 2013 Proceedings of Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 4 Golcher 29 2011 Stylometry and the interplay of topic and L1 in the different annotation layers in the Falko corpus The International Corpus of Learner English. 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