Sanne van Vuuren
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sanne van Vuuren is involved.
2025 Adverb placement in L1 and L2 spoken production: The effect of linguistic and extralinguistic factors International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:1, pp. 79–105 | Article
Most existing research on adverb placement has focused exclusively on writing. This is unfortunate, given that the spoken mode offers limited opportunity for pre-planning and post-editing and may thus more readily reveal patterns of L1 transfer. Further, previous studies rarely consider the… read more
2023 The native speaker ideal in FL pronunciation teaching practice: Evolving norms for English and French Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 37 (2023): Tangible Traces of Language Ideologies, Baiwir, Esther, Janine Berns and Marie Steffens (eds.), pp. 118–143 | Article
Language teaching practice is known to come with more or less implicit views on what ‘good pronunciation’ sounds like. However, over the past decades, frameworks such as the communicative approach to language learning and the wish for social inclusion have led to a gradual shift in normative… read more
2022 Strategies of clausal postmodification in learner English: L1 effects and L2 proficiency International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 8:2, pp. 157–189 | Article
The difficulty of automatically extracting syntactic structures from authentic learner data has previously limited the kinds of questions addressed by means of Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis (CIA; Granger, 2015), or has forced researchers to resort to manual analysis of smaller corpora. This… read more
2020 Adverb placement in EFL academic writing: Going beyond syntactic transfer International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:2, pp. 156–185 | Article
The present study looks at adverb placement in expert writing and in first-language and second-language novice spoken and written production. The extent to which first-language (L1) transfer is still present in advanced learners’ written production is also investigated. The study uses data from… read more
2017 Dutch learner English in close-up: A Bayesian corpus analysis of pre-subject adverbials in advanced Dutch EFL writing International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 3:1, pp. 1–35 | Article
This study presents a longitudinal Bayesian analysis of pre-subject adverbial (PSA) use in a 571,174-word corpus of Dutch learner English. Overall, learners use more circumstance and linking adverbials, but fewer stance adverbials than both novice and expert native writers. Learners also use… read more
2017 Chapter 16. Common framework, local context, local anchors: How information-structural transfer can help to distinguish within CEFR C2 Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade, Los, Bettelou and Pieter de Haan (eds.), pp. 353–370 | Chapter
The differentiation between and within CEFR C1 and C2 is commonly determined by learners’ educational and cognitive development. Linguistic development may, however, also continue to play a subtle role in the shape of L1 information-structural transfer. Our Dutch EFL learner corpus was expected… read more
2017 Does it ‘feel’ non-native? Native-speaker perceptions of information-structural transfer in L1 Dutch advanced EFL writing Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 6:2, pp. 197–212 | Article
Previous studies on information-structural transfer in texts produced by Dutch advanced learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) have found that one of the defining features in learners’ writing is a marked use of initial adverbials. The present study investigates the effect of this… read more
2013 Information structural transfer in advanced Dutch EFL writing: A cross-linguistic longitudinal study Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013, Aalberse, Suzanne and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 173–187 | Article
This article presents a case study on the role of L1 transfer of language-specific features of information structure in very advanced L2 learners. Cross-linguistic differences in the information status of clause-initial position in a V2 language like Dutch compared to an SVO language like English… read more