英語和日語人士學習中文 「被」字句之實證研究

An Experimental Study of the Chinese Bei-Construction by English- and Japanese-Speaking Learners

許素玲(Su-Ling Shiu)

指導教授 ： 陳純音

國立臺灣師範大學/文學院/英語學系/碩士(2000年)

摘要

摘要
本研究在探討英語和日語人士，中文「被」字句第二語言習得。其主要目的在驗證普遍語法 (Universal Grammar) 之存在和母語轉換 (L1 transfer) 之現象。同時，也藉此研究測試是否不同的題型會導致不同的結果；語意特性 (semantic property) 是否比語法特性 (syntactic property) 好學；不同型態的「被」字句其學習難易度是否不同。
本實驗以是非判斷 (grammaticality judgment) 和看圖回答 (picture-cued production) 的方式為主，對象是50位就讀國立台灣師範大學的英語和日語外籍學生和25位中國人。測驗題目包含直接 (direct) 和間接 (indirect) 的「被」字句，而間接「被」字句又可分為內含 (inclusive) 和排他 (exclusive) 「被」字句兩種。研究者根據四個特性 ¾ 動詞前介系詞詞組 (preverbal bei-phrases)、主事者省略 (the deletion of the agentive NP)、格位吸收 (case absorption) 和不幸意涵 (adversity) 設計不同的「被」字句。
實驗結果顯示，母語和目標語的相似及不同對受試者分別產生了正面及負面的影響。而部分受試者仍可正確地將母語設定值轉換為目標語的設定值，證實了普遍語法在第二外語習得中重要的角色。此外，受試者在判斷題的表現優於其在看圖說話的表現，顯示在語言學習過程中，學習者的理解能力往往比口語能力要來的好。而就語意和語法習得的難易度而言，後者在在理解題型顯得較前者容易，但在造句題型中卻並非如此，此有待進一步的研究。最後，就各種「被」字句的困難度來說，間接「被」字句比直接「被」字句來得不容易學；內含「被」字句亦比排他「被」字句難學。

關鍵字

被字句 ； 第二語言習得 ； 母語的影響 ； 普遍語法

並列摘要

ABSTRACT
The present study investigates the second language acquisition of the Chinese bei-construction by the English and Japanese speakers, with the aim of providing empirical evidence for L1 transfer and the existence of UG (Universal Grammar). It is also the purpose of the study to examine the methodological effects, to compare the semantic property with the syntactic property and to detect different passive types.
Two tasks, a grammaticality judgement task (GJ task) and a picture-cued production task (PP task), were administered to 25 English-speaking and 25 Japanese-speaking learners of Chinese at the Mandarin Training Center of National Taiwan Normal University, together with 25 native speakers. The bei-sentences, including the direct and indirect passives, which were further divided into inclusive and exclusive passives, were designed based on the four properties (i.e., preverbal bei-phrases, the deletion of the agentive NP, case absorption and adversity).
The overall results show that the L2 learners indeed carried over their L1 knowledge into L2 learning in the course of acquiring the bei-construction in Chinese, suggesting that L1 transfer, regardless of whether it is positive or negative, does occur. Besides, the fact that the subjects are able to acquire the properties which are not exemplified in their L1 as well as appropriately rest the L1 parameter into their L2 values further confirms the operation of UG in L2 acquisition. With respect to the methodological effects, it has been observed that what learners correctly judged in the GJ task could not necessarily be produced by them in the PP task, which suggests that comprehension, more often than not, precedes production. Additionally, the syntactic property was found to be easier than the semantic property in the GJ task, but not in the PP task. Thus, whether the former is indeed easier than the latter or vice versa deserves further research. Finally, the direct passive and the exclusive passive pose less difficulty to the L2 learners than the indirect type and the inclusive type respectively.

並列關鍵字

bei-construction ； SLA ； L1 transfer ； Universal Grammar

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