Strategie di formazione delle parole in varietà iniziali di polacco L2 Jacopo Saturno University of Bergamo, Italy This is a section of Le lingue slave tra struttura e uso(DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-328-5) by Julija Nikolaeva, Lucyna Gebert, Valentina Benigni Firenze University Press Firenze 2016 https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-328-5.16

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This paper describes word formation as observed in the earliest stages of L2 Polish. 31 L1 Italian beginning learners took part in a 14-hour Polish course, which was recorded, transcribed and morphologically tagged in order to correlate learner output with the relevant input features. After 4:30 hours, the learners could produce new words using the derivational suffix -k-, which in the input can be found in the majority of feminine nouns. This finding suggests that after minimal exposure, learners can identify the morphological structure of a class of nouns and reproduce it in their output.

 L2 Polish L1 Italian Input First Exposure Derivational Morphology

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