Mining formulaicity in Greek Learner Corpus ΙΙ

This paper aims to present a methodology for extracting, analyzing and exploring both quantitatively and quantitatively Formulaic Speech, as this is annotated in the written productions of L2 Greek learners in the recently compiled Greek Learner Corpus II (GLCII)[1]. Through the implementation of one of the most relevant measures of association called Lexical Gravity (Daudaravičius Marcinkevičienė, 2004) collocations and by extension collocational chains of different lengths are extracted. Overall, the proportion of Formulaic Speech in second/foreign language is traced, a quantitative analysis of the extracted n-grams is presented and possible correlations between the occurrences of formulaic speech and various learners’ metadata are presented. [1] GLC is compiled within the framework of the research project Latent Aspects in L2 Acquisition. The research work was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) (https://www.elidek.gr/en/call/6489/) under the “First Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty members and Researchers and the procurement of high-cost research equipment grant” (Project Number: 3161).