This study investigates the role of morphological awareness in ESL vocabulary acquisition. Participants were 198 Chinese college students enrolled in a joint program which required them to study in China for the first...This study investigates the role of morphological awareness in ESL vocabulary acquisition. Participants were 198 Chinese college students enrolled in a joint program which required them to study in China for the first two years and then study in the U.K. to complete their degrees. They completed a total of four paper-and-pencil tests： morpheme discrimination, morpheme recognition, vocabulary size test （VST） and word associates test （WAT）. We drew upon path analysis to explore the interconnected relationships among multiple explanatory variables （facets of morphological awareness） and outcome variables （facets of vocabulary knowledge）. The results demonstrated that English derivational awareness was strongly predictive of both ESL vocabulary breadth and ESL vocabulary depth, and that preexisting ESL vocabulary breadth could enhance the relation between derivational awareness and ESL vocabulary depth. To summarize, these results indicate that an improved English derivational awareness not only helps to expand ESL vocabulary size but can also consolidate learners＇ deep understanding of word properties, which will in turn assist them to establish connections with other associative words and phrases.展开更多
Reduplication is a one of the creative ways in Mandarin.People usually reduplicate to express more deep lexical meaning or semantic meaning vividly.Reduplication is a process of forming new words by repeating an entir...Reduplication is a one of the creative ways in Mandarin.People usually reduplicate to express more deep lexical meaning or semantic meaning vividly.Reduplication is a process of forming new words by repeating an entire free morpheme(total reduplication)or part of it(partial reduplication).Morphologically,functions of Chinese reduplication may place categorically within the derivational domain of lexemes.In fact,whereas derivation typically forms new lexemes and can be category changing,reduplication often conveys values typically found in the inflectional domain.With using test of categorical word and test of lexical decomposition,this research achieves shed new light on the nominal reduplicative processes.As result,in nominal domain,reduplication gives as a result plural noun.In derivational domain,nominal lexeme in reduplication has flexible distribution of lexical items.展开更多
在汉语中我们可以问"你喜欢谁写的书",可是在英语这类需要显性移动构成疑问句的语言中却找不到与其对应的表达方式。如果说,从汉语这个问句推导出来的LF是for which x,x=person[你喜欢x写的书],而且像人们一直笃信的那样,LF...在汉语中我们可以问"你喜欢谁写的书",可是在英语这类需要显性移动构成疑问句的语言中却找不到与其对应的表达方式。如果说,从汉语这个问句推导出来的LF是for which x,x=person[你喜欢x写的书],而且像人们一直笃信的那样,LF为人类语言所共有,那么为什么从英语中无法推导出汉语能够推导出来的LF呢?本文基于对这种LF在一些语言中存在而在另一些语言中不存在的"LF缺失"现象的观察,证明不能简单地认为LF为人类语言共有,并认为语言α中"LF缺失"的原因是从语言β中推导出来的LF在语言α中没有推导源,而一个LF表达式的推导源是否存在取决于语言特异的类型,最后得出LF不为人类语言所共有的结论。展开更多
文摘This study investigates the role of morphological awareness in ESL vocabulary acquisition. Participants were 198 Chinese college students enrolled in a joint program which required them to study in China for the first two years and then study in the U.K. to complete their degrees. They completed a total of four paper-and-pencil tests： morpheme discrimination, morpheme recognition, vocabulary size test （VST） and word associates test （WAT）. We drew upon path analysis to explore the interconnected relationships among multiple explanatory variables （facets of morphological awareness） and outcome variables （facets of vocabulary knowledge）. The results demonstrated that English derivational awareness was strongly predictive of both ESL vocabulary breadth and ESL vocabulary depth, and that preexisting ESL vocabulary breadth could enhance the relation between derivational awareness and ESL vocabulary depth. To summarize, these results indicate that an improved English derivational awareness not only helps to expand ESL vocabulary size but can also consolidate learners＇ deep understanding of word properties, which will in turn assist them to establish connections with other associative words and phrases.
文摘Reduplication is a one of the creative ways in Mandarin.People usually reduplicate to express more deep lexical meaning or semantic meaning vividly.Reduplication is a process of forming new words by repeating an entire free morpheme(total reduplication)or part of it(partial reduplication).Morphologically,functions of Chinese reduplication may place categorically within the derivational domain of lexemes.In fact,whereas derivation typically forms new lexemes and can be category changing,reduplication often conveys values typically found in the inflectional domain.With using test of categorical word and test of lexical decomposition,this research achieves shed new light on the nominal reduplicative processes.As result,in nominal domain,reduplication gives as a result plural noun.In derivational domain,nominal lexeme in reduplication has flexible distribution of lexical items.
文摘在汉语中我们可以问"你喜欢谁写的书",可是在英语这类需要显性移动构成疑问句的语言中却找不到与其对应的表达方式。如果说,从汉语这个问句推导出来的LF是for which x,x=person[你喜欢x写的书],而且像人们一直笃信的那样,LF为人类语言所共有,那么为什么从英语中无法推导出汉语能够推导出来的LF呢?本文基于对这种LF在一些语言中存在而在另一些语言中不存在的"LF缺失"现象的观察,证明不能简单地认为LF为人类语言共有,并认为语言α中"LF缺失"的原因是从语言β中推导出来的LF在语言α中没有推导源,而一个LF表达式的推导源是否存在取决于语言特异的类型,最后得出LF不为人类语言所共有的结论。
