Investigation of the relationship between animacy and L2 learners’ acquisition of the English plural morpheme.
Investigation of the relationship between animacy and L2 learners’ acquisition of the English plural morpheme.
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生命力与二语学习者英语复数语素习得关系的调查
DOI：
10.1007/s10936-022-09915-2
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
Tamura Yu
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作者：
嶼田 大海;小林 至道;中竹 真依子;Yoshiho Satake;小林至道・中竹真依子・嶼田大海;志野 文乃;佐竹 由帆;志野 文乃;佐竹 由帆;Tamura Yu
有人认为，根据有生命层次，语言在允许名词复数形式的程度上有所不同。日语区分有生命名词和无生命名词;后者不太可能接受复数标记（例如，? hon-tachi），不像英语。这种L1-L2差异可能会导致习得复数语素的困难。因此，本研究探讨了在线句子加工中生命性对英语复数词素加工的影响。在这项研究中，34名日本大学生参与了一个移动窗口版本的自定进度的阅读任务，在此期间，他们还判断是否出现的单词数量是一个或两个提示。如果有生命性很重要，日本英语学习者可能不会表现出第二个任务的干扰效果的无生命名词。然而，由于没有发现这样的效果，基于生命层次的预测没有得到证实。
It has been argued that languages differ in the extent to which they allow plural forms of nouns according to the Animacy Hierarchy. Japanese distinguishes between animate and inanimate nouns; the latter are less likely to receive plural markers (e.g., ?hon‑tachi), unlike English. This L1–L2 difference might cause difficulty in acquiring the plural morpheme. The present study thus investigates the influence of animacy on the processing of the English plural morpheme in online sentence processing. In this study, 34 Japanese university students engaged in a moving window version of a self-paced reading task, during which they also judged whether the number of words presented was one or two when prompted. If animacy matters, Japanese EFL learners might not show an interference effect of this second task for inanimate nouns. However, as no such effect was found, the prediction based on the animacy hierarchy was not confirmed.