汉语母语者对英语量化词语义辖域的习得研究  

An empirical study on the acquisition of quantifier scopes by Chinese L2-English learners

作　　者：吕骏 卢达威 

机构地区：[1]纽约州立大学石溪分校 [2]中国人民大学文学院,北京市100872

出　　处：《外语教学与研究》2018年第4期542-555,共14页Foreign Language Teaching and Research

摘　　要：二语习得研究领域中有关语义辖域的研究学者鲜有触及。有研究表明,与英语不同,汉语难以接受量化词的逆序辖域解读。既然如此,以汉语为母语的英语学习者,其逻辑式结构表征是否受母语影响,同样不允准逆序辖域解读呢?为回答此问题,本研究通过两项图片-句子配对实验,分别考察汉语、英语母语者以及英语二语者对包含双量化词句子的解读。母语实验结果表明,与英语母语者不同,汉语母语者在"全称量词先行"结构中允准逆序辖域解读,但不接受"存在量词先行"结构中的逆序辖域解读。二语实验结果发现,虽然其汉语不允准逆序辖域解读,但英语学习者可以克服母语语法的束缚,习得"存在量词先行"结构中的逆序辖域表征。此外,本研究还发现了量化词词项迁移现象。In second language acquisition research, few researchers have investigated the acquisition of inverse semantic scopes. Previous research shows that, unlike English, inverse semantic scope in doubly quantified configurations in Chinese is impossible. If this is the case, then our question is whether Chinese-speaking L2-English speakers will be able to have the inverse scope representation in Logical Form(LF) in their L2 grammar. To answer this question, we investigated the interpretation of doubly quantified sentences by L1-Chinese, L1-English, and L2-English speakers through two picture-sentence verification tasks. The experimental results suggest that inverse scope in the universal-first configuration is acceptable in Chinese, but not in the existential-first configuration. This is in contrast to the L1-English results. As for the L2 results, we found that although L1-grammar prohibits inverse scope in existential-first configurations, L2-English speakers showed evidence of overcoming L1 transfer as a similar pattern to that of English natives found. Furthermore, the present study also found evidence of lexical transfer.

关 键 词：量化词 语义逆序辖域 二语习得 母语迁移 

分 类 号：H319[语言文字—英语]