Tracking the early stages of child and adult comprehension of L2 morphosyntax: A pilot study
Tracking the early stages of child and adult comprehension of L2 morphosyntax: A pilot study
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追踪儿童和成人对 L2 形态句法理解的早期阶段：一项试点研究
DOI：
10.22599/jesla.25
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Diana Pili
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作者：
Diana Pili
二语习得和发展心理学的大量研究表明，儿童和成人都可以在较短的时间内接触一种具有自然句法特征的微型语言，在内隐教学条件下获得非本族语序。虽然有一些证据表明，在这些条件下，成人的二语学习可以扩展到语素(例如，性别、大小写)，但到目前为止，儿童对形态学习的关注很少。在这项初步研究中，6名9岁的儿童和8名成年人(都是英语母语者)连续三天在类似国际象棋的电脑游戏中，接触到BrocantoJ的听觉句子刺激。BrocantoJ是一种反映日语词序和词法的微型语言。在听到句子刺激后执行游戏动作的准确性和强迫选择任务的准确性被用来衡量整体语言理解以及对论元的句法实现与其主题功能(链接)之间关系的理解。数据显示，两组在总体和联系规则方面的表现都明显高于Chance。然而，成人在前两个阶段的表现明显好于儿童(p
A number of studies in SLA and developmental psychology have shown that both children and adults can acquire nonnative word orders after a relatively short amount of exposure to a miniature language with natural-syntax characteristics in implicit instruction conditions. Although there is some evidence that in these conditions adult L2 learning can extend to morphemes (e.g., gender, case), little attention has been given to child-learning of morphology to date. In this pilot study six nine-year-olds and eight adults (all L1 English monolinguals) were exposed over three consecutive days to auditory sentence stimuli in BrocantoJ, a miniature language mirroring the word order and morphology of Japanese, in the context of a computer game similar to chess. Accuracy in performing a game move after hearing a sentence stimulus that described it, and accuracy in a forced-choice task, were used as measures of overall language comprehension and comprehension of the relationship between an argument’s syntactic realization and its thematic function (linking). The data showed that both groups performed significantly above chance overall and on linking rules. However, adults performed significantly better than children in the first two sessions (p