摘要
本研究旨在考察中国成人学习者习得英语有定子句主语的规律。对比四组受试的零主语语法判断及改错成绩后发现:(1)学生的英语水平越高,他们对英语有定子句(finite clause)的零主语越敏感;(2)受试对语篇环境下主句(matrix clause)指称性代词零主语的直觉判断最低;(3)初、中级水平学生对嵌入句(embedded clause)零主语的敏感程度胜过主句零主语,但是高水平学生在这方面不太明显;(4)"显性代词制约"(Overt Pronoun Constraint)似乎对初、中级水平学生的判断有影响,对高水平学生没有影响;(5)形式-形态分离和形式-形态映射不充分是造成受试"语法判断"和"短文改错"成绩差异的主要原因。本研究的结果能在"全迁移/全通达假设"(Schwartz&Sprouse1994,1996)框架下得到合理的解释。
The present study,with 514 Chinese EFL learners and 15 native speakers of English participating in the investigation,aims to examine Chinese adult EFL learners' acquisition of English non-null subjects in finite clauses.Results from the analyses of the performance of four proficiency level groups showed that Chinese EFL learners' awareness of obligatoriness of subjects in English finite clauses increased with their proficiency levels.Furthermore,learners' judgment seemed not to be influenced by subject types and positions.It suggests that new parameter values not instantiated in L1 can be acquired by adult L2 learners although their interlanguage is initially affected by some L1 properties such as OPC and Topic NP Deletion Rule.It seems that form-morphology mapping could account for inadequacies in L2 system.
出处
《现代外语》
CSSCI
北大核心
2009年第4期378-388,共11页
Modern Foreign Languages
基金
国家社科基金项目"中国英语学习者句法发展模式研究"(项目批准号:04BYY041)的阶段性成果之一
