Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in Adult EFL Learners in Taiwan

英文形容詞子句的語法分析技巧調查：以台灣技職院校生為例

李慧嫺(Hui-Hsien Lee) ； 王冰如(Pin-Ju Wang)

《南亞學報》 30期 (2010/12) Pp. 201-216

https://doi.org/10.6989/JN.201012.0201

摘要

本研究旨在調查台灣大專生的英文語法分析技巧，尤其是當遭遇因語法導致兩種語意解讀的形容詞子句時，學生在語意解讀上是否有其偏好，而該偏好是否可歸因於相關文獻中所提及之語法分析技巧。本計畫共有六十位北部某技術學院大一新生參與。透過問卷收集及統計分析，結果顯示學生在解讀語意不清的形容詞子句時，傾向將前位名詞片語當成所修飾之先行詞，同時學生似乎無法判讀先行詞裡的介系詞所隱含的字詞語意線索。因此本研究發現文獻中晚期關閉語法分析技巧應不是普遍存在於各個語言，另外學生在理解句子時可能利用其他語法分析技巧並且受到母語的影響。

關鍵字

語法分析技巧 ； 形容詞子句

並列摘要

The purpose of the study is to investigate Taiwanese EFL learners' parsing strategies while they process English (L2) sentences. The syntactic structure under investigation is relative clause attachment ambiguities in ”two-site contexts”, namely, a complex NP (NP1-of-NP2 and NP1-with-NP2) followed by a relative clause. A total of sixty freshmen at an Institute of Technology in northern Taiwan participated in the experiment. Data collected by means of a carefully designed questionnaire were analyzed by a t-test and a one-way ANOVA. Results showed that a) the EFL learners preferred to attach the relative clause high to the first NP, and b) they were not sensitive to the lexical semantic information carried by with. The findings suggested that the principle of late closure might not be universal, and during sentence comprehension learners might have drawn on other parsing principles and were under the influence of properties of L1.

並列關鍵字

parsing strategy ； syntactic ambiguity resolution