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Larsson et al. (2020) emphasize the importance of taking linguistic variables (e.g., verb type) into consideration in studies of adverb placement. This study looks at the positional distribution of 15 epistemic adverbs from texts written by L1 Turkish, German, and English students, with the aim of testing whether the findings from Larsson et al. can be generalized to a different register (argumentative writing) and a typologically more distant language (Turkish). We also revisit the question of whether there is L1 transfer. The results confirm Larsson et al.’s finding that the main predictors of adverb placement are linguistic, although some register differences were noted, such as higher frequencies of adverbs in the argumentative texts. Furthermore, the L1 Turkish students made especially frequent use of the clause-initial position (e.g., ).

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The effect of linguistic and extralinguistic features on EFL adverb placement
International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 10, 338 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.00046.ozk
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Keyword(s): adverb placement; argumentative texts; EFL writing; epistemic adverbs; transfer

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