特征组装视角的英语冠词习得研究  

Chinese EFL learners'acquisition of English articles: A study from the perspective of feature assembly

作　　者：刘艾娟[1] 戴曼纯[2] 李芝[3] 

机构地区：[1]北京中医药大学 [2]北京外国语大学 [3]北京林业大学

出　　处：《外语教学与研究》2013年第3期385-397,480,共13页Foreign Language Teaching and Research

基　　金：戴曼纯主持的国家社科基金项目"特征组装模式下的英语导句功能语类习得研究"(12BYY118)的阶段性成果之一

摘　　要：本文以生成语法为理论框架,从特征组合视角探讨影响中国英语学习者冠词习得的因素。本项研究通过对比三组受试在四种不同测试任务中的冠词使用情况,发现英语语法水平越高,冠词使用越准确;不定冠词和零冠词似乎比定冠词给学习者带来更大的习得困难。作者认为,特征重组复杂度影响抽象句法知识与表层形态之间的映射,制约冠词习得。研究结果支持并拓展了句法-形态映射论。Adopting generative grammar as its theoretical framework, this paper explores the possible factors affecting Chinese EFL learners'acquisition of English articles. 97 learners with the onset age of 12 or after were divided into three groups according to their language proficiency. The participants were tested on the use of English articles in four different tasks. The results show that their accuracy in using articles increases with their proficiency level and that the indefinite article and the zero article form seem to be more difficult to acquire than the definite article. It is argued that the complexity of feature reassembly constrains EFL learners'acquisition of English articles as it affects the mapping between abstract syntactic knowledge and surface morphological forms. Thus the study supports the syntax-morphology mapping theory with fresh evidence.

关 键 词：特征 特征组装 中国学习者 英语冠词 

分 类 号：H319[语言文字—英语]