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A corpus for L2 Acquisition SLA theory aims to understand the complex mechanisms and conditions behind learner grammars SLA theory aims to understand the complex mechanisms and conditions behind learner grammars Access to good quality data is crucial: learner production data + focused comprehension tasks Access to good quality data is crucial: learner production data + focused comprehension tasks Increasing interest in the creation of electronic learner corpora: Increasing interest in the creation of electronic learner corpora: –sharing data more easily –automatising some aspects of data analysis through the use of software such as concordancers, part of speech taggers, etc.

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Clitic Production (computer based) The learner is asked a question referring to an object based on the sequence of pictures shown. 32 slides; combination of number and gender (canonical and non-canonical) plus syntactic collocation.

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Word Order Task (paper & pencil)   Context-dependent word order preference test The learner is presented with 28 situations with a following question Two types of questions: What happened? (Broad focus) Who did x? (Narrow focus) 4 items by 7 syntactic contexts: 4xSVO, 4xVOS, 4xCLLD, 4xUnerg/Narrow, 4xUnerg/ Broad, 4xUnacc/Narrow and 4xUnacc/Broad Three options: Inverted (VS), non-inverted (SV) and both. 1. 1. You get home and your brother just tells you that he has got an email from your friend Sue and that he has very good news to tell you. You ask your brother “¿Qué ha pasado?” (What happened?) What could he say? a. Se ha comprado un coche Sue b..Sue se ha comprado un coche c. Both sentences (Sue has bought a car) (Sue has bought a car) 2. Your brother is having some friends over for a get together at home. When your mother comes she sees some smoke coming out of the bathroom and she asks your brother: “¿Quién está fumando?” (Who’s smoking?) What could you brother say? a.Oscar está fumandob. B. Está fumando Oscarc. Both sentences (Oscar is smoking) (Oscar is smoking)

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Next Steps Database will be available for use by the research community via www.splloc.soton.ac.uk (in spring 2008) Database will be available for use by the research community via www.splloc.soton.ac.uk (in spring 2008)www.splloc.soton.ac.uk Articles & conference papers (in 2007): Articles & conference papers (in 2007): –BAAL LLT SIG –GALA –BUCLD –HLS –SLRF CHILDES training workshop: CHILDES training workshop: – 25 January 2008, University of Southampton.

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The SPLLOC project is supported by an ESRC research grant (RES 000231609) We would like to thank all the participants in the project, including subjects, transcribers and fieldworkers Acknowledgments