中國學(xué)習(xí)者英語關(guān)系從句理解與產(chǎn)出的實證研究.pdf

1、湖南大學(xué)碩士學(xué)位論文中國學(xué)習(xí)者英語關(guān)系從句理解與產(chǎn)出的實證研究姓名：呂杰申請學(xué)位級別：碩士專業(yè)：外國語言學(xué)及應(yīng)用語言學(xué)指導(dǎo)教師：肖云南20050427中國學(xué)習(xí)者英語關(guān)系從句理解與產(chǎn)出的實證研究IIABSTRACTRelativeclauseasauniversallinguisticphenomenonhasdrawnmuchattentioninthefieldoflanguageacquisitionduetoitsuniquesy

2、ntacticpropertyitsfrequencyusefulnessinourdailycommunication.Researchonitsacquisitiondifficultymainlyfocusesontwoaspects:thefirstoneisthefunctionstheheadnounservesinthesubclausereflectedbydifferentRCtypesi.e.SUDOIOOPREPG

3、ENOCOMPthesecondoneistheembeddednessofarelativeclausemanifestedbytwopositionsi.e.thematrixsubjectpositionthematrixobjectposition.Inspiteofavarietyofinvestigationsoftheissuefromvariousperspectivesbyresearchersabroadnosati

4、sfactyexplanationisachieved.Ononehitmaybeduetothefactthatlanguagecomprehensionproductionaresubjecttoavarietyofconstraintswhereasmostexplanationsarebasedonlyononesinglerationaleirrespectiveofanyothers.Ontheotherhthosestud

5、iesfocusonlyontheseveralcommonRCpatternswhilepayinglittleattentiontotheothers.Athomelittleconsiderationisgiventothefield.Letaloneadeepthoughstudy.Thepresentresearchbasedonthepreviousfindingsaimstomakeacompleteinvestigati

6、onintotheissuebydoingexperimentsonChineselearnersofEnglishasafeignlanguage.Inthisstudyacomprehensiontestaswellasproductiontestareusedtocollectdatawhicharethensubmittedtostatisticalanalysissoastogetanideaabouttherelatived

7、ifficultyofvariousRCsentencestodigoutwhateffectstheRCtypematrixpositionhaveonthecomprehensionproductionofarelativeclause.What’smetheresultsofthepresentresearchareexaminedagainsttheprevioushypothesessothatadeepthoughunder

8、stingofthecomprehensionproductionoftheEnglishrelativeclausesisobtained.Themainfindingsare:FirstlyinspiteofthecomparativelysyntacticcomplexityofGENOPREPoverSUDOthefmertwoRCtypesareshowntobeeasiertoprocessthanthelattertwor

9、espectivelyinbothofthetwotests.ThisindicatesthattheacquisitiondifficultiesofdifferentRCtypesarenotcompletelydeterminedbytheirsyntacticcomplexities.Theperceptualsaliencyoftherelativepronoun“whose”thelearnerslinguisticexpe

10、rienceareineffectplayimptantroles.SecondlyinthecomprehensiontasktheprocessingdifficultiesofrelativesentencesaredeterminedbytheembeddednessbutnotbythedifferencesofRCtypes.Thisisarguedtobeduetothefactthatsentencecomprehens

11、iondoesnotdesperatelyrelyonthestructureofasentencebutonthelexicalinfmationthelearner’swldknowledge.InproductiontaskRCtypesmanifestedtheireffectsgloballywhiletheeffectsofembeddednessmanifestedthemselvesonlywithineachRCtyp