초록
영어
This study examines English learners’ acceptability to the Nuclear Stress Rule(NSR) on postverbal prepositional phrases in Chinese and provides a piece of evidence to prove that the NSR active at phonology-syntax interface is difficult for English students learning Chinese (L1-English L2-Chinese learners) to acquire. The result from sentence acceptability judgment task shows that L1-English L2-Chinese learners and Chinese native speakers perform significantly differently in three out of four conditions of postverbal PPs. English native speakers rely on their L1 transfer to judge the acceptability of sentences in Chinese. Therefore they are likely to accept grammatical sentences which are prosodically unacceptable to native speakers. Pedagogically speaking, L2 learners need to be instructed in terms of negative inputs in order to acquire this property.
목차
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
2.1. Problems of Pure Syntactic Analysis
2.2. Nuclear Stress Rule
3. Data and Methodology
3.1. Subjects
3.2. Design
3.3. Two Hypotheses
4. Results and Discussion
5. Conclusion
References
Appendix 1: Background Questionnaire
Appendix 2: Test Design