中国英语学习者反身代词回指消解的时间进程  

The Time-course of Chinese EFL Learners’ Reflexive Anaphora Resolution

作　　者：刘晓萍[1,2] LIU Xiaoping(School of English Studies,Tianjin Foreign Studies University,Tianjin 300204,P.R.China;Beijing Foreign Studies University)

机构地区：[1]天津外国语大学英语学院,天津市300204 [2]北京外国语大学

出　　处：《现代外语》2020年第2期236-247,共12页Modern Foreign Languages

基　　金：教育部人文社科项目“英汉视译过程的眼动研究”(15YJCZH098)的阶段性成果。

摘　　要：本文通过眼动实验研究母语为汉语的英语学习者的反身代词回指消解,考察二语者是否可以立即发现先行词与反身代词的性别误配,以及先行词性别是否影响先行词与反身代词性别误配加工的敏感性。研究发现,英语学习者反身代词消解发生在句子加工晚期,先行词性别未对性别不一致的加工产生影响。该研究表明,英语学习者不能即时使用反身代词和先行词的性别语义线索进行句法加工,性别突显度可能是帮助代词回指消解的潜在因素。This eye-tracking investigation on Chinese speakers of L2 English in anaphora resolution had two aims: one was to see whether L2 English learners could immediately find a gender mismatch between a possessive antecedent and a reflexive pronoun in syntactic processing, and the other was whether the gender of the antecedent would result in different sensitivity to the mismatch. The results showed that non-native speakers only started reflexive anaphora resolution at a later stage of processing, and there was no effect of antecedent gender type on the processing of subsequent reflexive gender incongruity. These findings suggest that non-native speakers are unable to employ immediately and efficiently the gender information as the semantic cue provided by reflexives and their antecedents, and gender salience may be a potential facilitator in anaphora resolution.

关 键 词：回指消解 反身代词 约束理论 语义线索 突显度 

分 类 号：H319[语言文字—英语]