The Nature of Icelandic as a Second Language: An Insight from the Learner Error Corpus for Icelandic

Abstract

The Icelandic L2 Error Corpus is an expanding collection of texts written by users of Icelandic as a second language, published on CLARIN. It currently consisting of 22,705 manually-annotated errors in different categories pertaining to grammar, spelling, lexical and other issues. The corpus was used to perform a contrastive interlanguage analysis, first using a native speaker reference corpus – the Icelandic Error Corpus, then analysing the corpus internally based on linguistic features relevant to second language acquisition. This paper presents the corpus and first results of the analysis.