汉语儿童集合量词和容器量词量化功能习得研究.pdfVIP

汉语儿童集合量词和容器量词量化功能习得研究 Contents Abstracti 摘要 iii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Background of the Study and Research Questions1 1.2 Structure of the Thesis 4 Chapter 2 Literature Review 5 2.1 Count-Mass Distinction and Interpretation of Chinese Bare Nouns 5 2.2 Functions of Chinese Classifiers7 2.3 Studies on Acquisition of the Count-Mass Distinction and Chinese Classifiers9 2.3.1 Studies on Acquisition of the Count-Mass Distinction 10 2.3.2 Studies on Acquisition of Chinese Classifiers 11 Chapter 3 Experiment 1- Quantification Function of Collective Classifiers17 3.1 Participants, Test Sentences and Situation Types18 3.2 Test Procedures22 3.3 Findings and Discussions27 Chapter 4 Experiment 2- Quantification Function of Container Classifiers 30 4.1 Participants, Test Sentences and Situation Types30 4.2 Test Procedures32 4.3 Findings and Discussions34 Chapter 5 Conclusion 36 References37 Acknowledgements 39 Appendix A: A Full List of Stories and Test Sentences40 Appendix B: Experiment Data 45 Appendix C Questionnaires for Adult Group47 文献综述报告 49 Abstract The count-mass distinction in Chinese is analyzed in different ways. Some researchers hold that the count-mass distinction in Chinese is lexically encoded in that count nouns like lizi ‘pear’ denote entities that constitute a discrete unit by itself while the denotation of mass nouns like shui ‘water’ has no natural boundary (Cheng Sybesma, 1998, 1999). These researchers give a semantic account for the count-mass distinction. Other researchers argue that a noun is underspecified in countability cross- linguistically and the count-mass distinction in Chinese is anchored in the syntactic functional categoryclassifi