초록
영어
This study investigates the acquisition of preposition stranding in the syntactic contexts, such as elliptical wh-questions and non-elliptical ones, by Korean speakers learning English. An acceptability judgment task was conducted to examine the effects of clause types (non-elliptical vs. elliptical), preposition placement (preposition stranding vs. preposition pied-piping), and the V-P dependency (Dependent vs. Independent vs. Irrelevant). The results showed that preposition stranding was rejected in elliptical wh-questions while preposition fronting was favored over preposition stranding in non-elliptical wh-questions. Though the results were seemingly contradictory to the saliency hypothesis proposed by Bardovi-Harlig (1987), the study will provide an Optimality-theoretic analysis for the learners’ interlanguage grammars by adopting the constraint ranking proposed by Choi (2008).
목차
1. Introduction
2. Previous Studies
2.1 Acquisition of Preposition Placement
2.2 Analyses of Alternation between P-stranding and P-fronting
2.3 Embedded Wh-questions: Elliptical and Non-elliptical Questions
3. The Study
3.1 Research Questions
3.2 Participants
3.3 Tasks and Procedure
3.4 Material Designs
4. Results
5. Discussion
5.1 Developmental Path and OT-Analysis
5.2 L1 Influence
6. Conclusion
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