In this section you can find some articles on various issues of formulaic sequences, including problems of defining/identifying FS and how they are acquired by both native and non-native speakers (second/foreign language learners).
Different factors that might affect the extent of exposure to a language include classroom focus, the time spent in a country where the language is spoken as native, and the amount of reading in the language.
Scholars in different fields studied the issue of formulaic sequences, namely in general linguistics, corpus linguistics, phraseology, lexicography, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, first and second language acquisition and others. They all looked at formulaic sequences with their own theoretical perspectives and different criteria.
This article discusses the problem of defining formulaic sequences in language use as it is presented in the 2004 volume “Formulaic Sequences”, edited by NorbertSchmitt.
In the past three decades there has been much research done in the area of language patterning. However, as Schmitt & Carter (2004) noticed, the problem is that the diversity of formulaic sequences made it difficult to develop a comprehensive definition of the phenomenon.
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