省略结构的儿童语言获得研究

发布时间：2018-06-21 06:06

本文选题：语言获得 + 省略结构　；参考：《中国语文》2012年03期

【摘要】：本文通过实验研究儿童省略结构的获得。本文所讨论的省略结构指的是"也是"结构、"也+情态动词"结构以及空宾结构。这三种结构在汉语生成语法有关的讨论中常常被笼统地称作VP省略结构。本文的研究发现,前两种结构的句法语义表现和英语等语言中的VP省略结构比较相似,因为其解读遵守平行原则,即要求省略部分与先行部分的句法和语义对等;而空宾结构的表现则不怎么像VP省略结构,因为其解读可以不受平行原则的制约。支持这一分析的证据来自我们的实验研究,实验结果显示4岁儿童和成人解读"也是"和"也+情态动词"结构遵守平行原则,而解读空宾结构不受该原则限制。该项研究还发现3岁儿童还不具备区分这三种结构的能力。本文认为这三种结构的解读涉及句法和语义的跨模组运算,而跨模组运算能力的成熟要受到年龄因素的限制,这一研究结果为语法发育论提供了证据。
[Abstract]:In this paper, the acquirement of ellipsis structure in children is studied experimentally. The ellipsis structure discussed in this paper refers to the structure of "also is", the structure of "also modal verb" and the structure of empty object. These three structures are generally referred to as VP ellipsis in the discussion of Chinese generative grammar. It is found that the syntactic and semantic expressions of the first two structures are similar to those of VP ellipsis in English and other languages, because their interpretation follows the principle of parallelism, that is, the syntactic and semantic equivalence between the ellipsis and the antecedents; The empty object structure is less like VP ellipsis structure because it can be interpreted without the restriction of parallel principle. The evidence supporting this analysis comes from our experimental study, which shows that the interpretation of "also is" and "also modal verbs" by 4-year-old children and adults follows the principle of parallelism, while the interpretation of empty object structures is not limited by this principle. The study also found that 3-year-olds do not yet have the ability to distinguish the three structures. This paper holds that the interpretation of these three structures involves cross-module operations in syntax and semantics, and the maturity of cross-module operations is limited by age factors. This study provides evidence for the theory of grammatical development.
【作者单位】：香港理工大学中文及双语学系;中国社会科学院语言研究所;
【基金】：香港理工大学研究项目中国社会科学院语言研究所重点课题;中国社会科学院创新工程项目的资助
【分类号】：H146

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