Usage Events and Constructional Knowledge: Two Variants of Introductory-it Construction

Sakol Suethanapornkul [Personal website]

Sarut Supasiraprapa

This repository contains data and an R script for the paper "Usage Events and Constructional Knowledge: A Study of Two Variants of the Introductory-it Construction" which is published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Overview

The following files are inside the Data folder:

• Adjective_Frequency_Raw.txt: a long-format table of adjectives and the variants with which they are attested. Minus the column-header row, the file contains 41,789 lines. This is divided into 15,862 lines of Adj-that, 23,627 of Adj-to, and 2,300 of Other.
• Production_introIT.csv: Elicitation data from the English L1 and Thai L1 participants.

Elicitation data

Elicitation data can be found in the Production_introIT.csv file, which consists of the following columns:

• Participant: Participant ID
• Time_min: Time spent completing the experiment (in minutes)
• Age: Participants' age (in years)
• Sex: Participants' gender (three levels: Male, Female, or Non-specified)
• Degree: Current graduate degree (two levels: MS or Doctoral)
• Program: Field of study
• L1: Participants' first language (two levels: English or Thai)
• TestScore: TOEFL iBT scores
• AWEQ: Average scores on the Academic Writing Experience Questionnaire (AWEQ)
• Frame: Target stimuli (e.g., Is.that = It is _____ that; Seem.that = It seems _____ that, etc.) Numbers refer to order of responses
• Variant: Introductory-it variant the frame instantiates (two levels: Adj-that or Adj-to)
• Response: Answers supplied by the participants
• Past_participle: Whether responses are past participle (e.g., understood, argued)
• Incomplete: Whether responses are typos, mispelled words, or non-adjective responses