ASYMMETRYOFNULLSUBJECTSANDNULLOBJECTS.pptVIP

ASYMMETRY OF NULL SUBJECTS AND NULL OBJECTS IN CHINESE SPEAKERS’ L2 ENGLISH Boping Yuan University of Cambridge TERMS Null subjects/Null objects: 零主语、零宾语 --新编英汉语言学词典 戴炜华 主编 2007 上海外语教育出版社 AGR(EEMENT)：(在性、数、格和人称方面的)一致 T(ENSE)：时态 INFLECTION：屈折变化，指（形态学中）给单词添加词缀或根据语言的语法规则以其他方式改变词形的过程。 Metalinguistic knowledge: 元语言学知识，指（语言学习中）学习者通过琢磨和分析语言所得到的关于语言的形式、结构及其他方面。 --语言教学及应用语言学辞典 Jack C. Richards等，外研社2002 Restructuring：The process by which learners recognize their interlanguage in the light of new evidence about the target language. --Second Language Acquisition Rod Ellis 2000 上海外教社 The Outline of the Article INTRODUCTORY NULL SUBJECTS AND NULL OBJECTS NULL SUBJECTS AND NULL OBJECTS IN L1 AND L2 ACQUISITION EXPERIMENT DISCUSSION CONCLUSION INTRODUCTORY Example: Wo mai-le yi tai xinde jisuanji, shi Riben zao de. I have bought a new computer ,which is made in Japan. Zhangsan shuo bu renshi. Zhangsan said he didn’t know him. NULL SUBJECTS AND NULL OBJECTS Null Subjects and Underspecification of Inflection the underspecification of T and AGR features licence null subjects in Chinese Null Objects and Topic-Drop Parameter English - Topic-Drop Chinese + Topic-Drop NULL SUBJECTS AND NULL OBJECTS IN L1 AND L2 ACQUISITION L1 Acquisition L2 Acquisition 1)Most of the research focused on the relationship between null subjects and verb inflection in L2 acquisition 2)Zobl(1994): involved null subjects and null objects ,but didn’t offer an explanation for the asymmetry of null subjects and null objects EXPERIMENT Focus: the unlearning of the null subjects and null objects by adult Chinese speakers in their acquisition of L2 English Hypothesis: If L1 transfer would take place, it should display an asymmetry of frequently allowing null subjects; but less frequently null objects, as Chinese-speaking children in their L1 acquisition. Subjects