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dc.contributor.authorJanda, Laura Alexis
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-11T11:34:30Z
dc.date.available2020-06-11T11:34:30Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIncluded in the tasks facing a language learner is the acquisition of a lexicon and a grammar. However, when the target language has inflectional morphology, these two parts of the language-learning task intersect in the paradigms of grammatical word forms because each open-class lexeme has a number of forms that allow it to express various combinations of grammatical categories. Among major world languages, Russian is relatively highly inflected, meaning that the challenges of acquiring vocabulary are compounded by the need to master the inflectional morphology. Even a modest basic vocabulary of a few thousand inflected lexemes has over a hundred thousand associated word forms. Recent research (Janda and Tyers 2018, described in more detail below) suggests that there could be an advantage to learning only a handful of high-frequency forms for each lexeme. Section 2 reviews distributional facts about paradigms, their theoretical implications, and the results of a computational experiment that simulates the learning of Russian paradigms either in their entirety or based only on the most frequent word forms. Section 3 presents a free public net-based resource, the Strategic Mastery of Russian Tool (SMARTool), which takes up the challenge of providing strategic input for second-language (L2) learning of Russian vocabulary. The design functions and some pedagogical applications of the SMARTool are detailed. Conclusions are offered in Section 4.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJanda, L.A.(2019)Businessmen and Ballerinas Take Different Forms: A Strategic Resource for Acquiring Russian Vocabulary and Morphology.<i> Russian Language Journal, 69,</i> 175-193en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1778200
dc.identifier.issn0036-0252
dc.identifier.otherhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/e26596454
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/18524
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Councils for International Education ACTR / ACCELSen_US
dc.relation.journalRussian Language Journal
dc.relation.projectIDDirektoratet for internasjonalisering og kvalitetsutvikling i høgare utdanning: CPRU-2017/10027en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2020 by ACTRen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Russian language: 028en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Russisk språk: 028en_US
dc.titleBusinessmen and Ballerinas Take Different Forms: A Strategic Resource for Acquiring Russian Vocabulary and Morphologyen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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