TOPIC CONTINUITY IN L2 ENGLISH ARTICLE USE
TOPIC CONTINUITY IN L2 ENGLISH ARTICLE USE
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二语英语文章使用中的主题连续性
DOI：
10.1017/s0272263102003029
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
S. Jarvis
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作者：
S. Jarvis
许多关于第二语言冠词习得的研究探讨了语义、句法和语篇共性对学习者冠词使用的系统性和变异性的影响。本文从与主题连续性相关的两个假定的话语共性（例如，Givón，1983），在过去的文章习得研究中只单独讨论过：倾向于标记主题和评论之间的区别（例如，Huebner，1983）和标记新的，连续的和重新引入的NP指代之间的区别的趋势（例如，Chaudron &帕克，1990年）。本研究探讨如何以及这些话语的共性帐户的文章使用和不使用的模式中发现的199芬兰语和145瑞典语的青少年英语学习者写的叙述。定量的研究结果对学习者对主题-评论区分的敏感性提出了一些质疑，也表明学习者倾向于标记新的、连续的和重新引入的NP指代之间的区别，这受到L1中这种区别的突出程度的影响。定量的结果得到了一个子集的数据，提出了许多其他元素，需要表征个人学习者的中介语文章系统的系统性的定性分析的支持。
Much of the research on L2 article acquisition has investigated the effects of semantic, syntactic, and discourse universals on the systematicity and variability of learners' article use. The present paper looks at systematicity from the combined perspective of two putative discourse universals related to topic continuity (e.g., Givón, 1983) that have been addressed only separately in past studies of article acquisition: the tendency to mark the distinction between topics and comments (e.g., Huebner, 1983) and the tendency to mark the distinction between new, continuous, and reintroduced NP referents (e.g., Chaudron & Parker, 1990). The present study examines how well these discourse universals account for the patterns of article use and nonuse found in narratives written by 199 Finnish-speaking and 145 Swedish-speaking adolescent learners of English. The quantitative results of the study cast some doubt on learners' sensitivity to the topic-comment distinction and also suggest that learners' tendency to mark distinctions between new, continuous, and reintroduced NP referents is influenced by the prominence of such distinctions in the L1. The quantitative results are supported by a qualitative analysis of a subset of the data that suggests numerous other elements that are needed to characterize the systematicity of individual learners' interlanguage article systems.