The Acquisition of English Dative Alternation：英语与格转换的习得.pptVIP

The Acquisition of English Dative Alternation 報告者: N95C0015 吳冠瑩 N95C0024 陳重諺 Abstract This experimental study investigates L1 transfer and overgeneralization of Chinese L2 Interlanguage development by focusing on the acquisition of English dative alternation by Taiwanese adult learners. In Chinese, the semantic constraints are less an issue, and most verbs become susceptible to dative alternation on adding the morpheme gei. Questions In L2 acquisition of the dative alternation, would Chinese EFL learners be affected by the L1 structure [V+gei DP DP]? Would they acquire English dative alternation on a verb-by-verb basis or would they internalize a rule from the input and overgeneralize it to non-alternating verb? Finding Even within the same L1, differences in the morphological and syntactic structure for Chinese to-dative and for-dative verbs will somehow alter their paths of interlanguage development in acquiring English dative construction. Introduction Bley-Vroman (1990): adult learners lost their ability to access Universal Grammar (UG), and have available only the properties of UG that exist in their first language (L1). L2 adults rely largely on the input of L2 or refer to L1 in their Interlanguage(IL) development. The main issues of this study Is the frequency of the input essential to acquisition? Which developmental errors arise in adult L2 acquisition? After adult learners have internalized their own specific rules in the target language, would they overgeneralize the rules? Another Issues We conduct three experiments based on factors of frequency, L1 structure, and the degree of overgeneralization. How differences between to-datives and for-datives in L1 result in changes in Interlanguage development paths, and the complex nature of factors in language acquisition. Theoretical Background Dative verb: allows alternation between two forms – one with both objects parallel and another with the indirect object within a prepositional phr