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Article published In: The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research:
Edited by Timothy Colleman, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34] 2020
► pp. 99–109

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In search of constructions in writing process data

 | Université catholique de Louvain
Published online: 28 May 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00038.gil
Abstract
This article explores the possibility of identifying mentally stored constructions in writing process data, that is, data that reproduce the process through which a text is written. The unit that serves as a basis for the identification of constructions is the burst of writing, which corresponds to a chunk of text produced between two pauses. Bursts are examined in L1 French and L2 English keylogging data from the Process Corpus of English in Education and their potential constructional status is considered.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Identification of constructions
  • 3.Bursts of writing
    • 3.1A detour through speech
    • 3.2Writing fluency and bursts
    • 3.3Bursts as constructions
  • 4.Exploration of bursts in PROCEED
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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