L2 acquisition of the Chinese plural marker 

被引:2
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作者
Su, Jiajia [1 ]
机构
[1] Beijing Foreign Studies Univ, Natl Res Ctr Foreign Language Educ, 310 Guonei Bldg,19 Xisanhuan North Rd, Beijing 100089, Peoples R China
关键词
feature reassembly; L2 acquisition of plural marking; L1; transfer; Chinese plural marker -men;
D O I
10.1075/lab.21025.su
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
This article investigates the L2 acquisition of the Chinese plural maker -men by English and Korean speakers within the framework of the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (FRH) (Lardiere, 2009). The Chinese plural suffix -men, the Korean plural suffix -tul, and the English plural suffix -s share some properties and differ on others. Thirty-two English-speaking learners and thirty-five Korean-speaking learners of Chinese of advanced and intermediate proficiency were tested using a truth value judgment task and a grammaticality judgment task. Results show that: (i) all the L2 groups have acquired the target feature set of -men (i.e., [plural, specific, human]); (ii) the two English groups and the advanced Korean group but not the intermediate Korean group have acquired the conditions on the overt realization of -men (i.e., optionality with demonstratives and prohibition with classifiers). The results are consistent with the FRH: differences in how features are assembled in lexical items and differences in conditions on feature realization between the L1 and L2 lead to acquisition difficulty; such difficulty can be overcome, though native-like performance is not guaranteed.
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页码:255 / 284
页数:30
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