Low proficiency does not mean ab initio : A methodological footnote for linguistic transfer studies
Low proficiency does not mean ab initio : A methodological footnote for linguistic transfer studies
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低熟练度并不意味着从头开始：语言迁移研究的方法论脚注
DOI：
10.1080/10489223.2019.1677668
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发表时间：
2019
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1.2
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Puig-Mayenco E
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Puig-Mayenco E
这篇简短的文章的目的是强调一个具体的方法论考虑有关检查的语言迁移在顺序语言习得：何时以及如何转移有意义地从有关目标语言的发展轨迹的问题解开？虽然这个方法论问题是相关的所有迁移研究，无论学习者类型或语言领域的调查，在这里，我们专注于一组第三语言习得数据。本文研究了加泰罗尼亚语-西班牙语双语儿童在成年后学习英语作为第三语言的过程中，使用否定量词nobody/nothing和否定极性词anybody/anything的情况。我们提供两组分析。第一个是低水平初学者的超集（所有参与者都参加了一个专门设计的英语课程），然后是一个子集组（只有那些真正的initioL 3学习者，也就是说，以前没有学习过英语）。联合收割机的分析表明，曝光的问题超出了熟练程度，即使熟练程度保持不变，在非常低的水平，低熟练的L3学习者谁有一些指令/曝光的L3模式不同于trulyab initioL 3学习者。我们讨论了这一现实是如何复杂的隔离L3转让适当的L3开发/收购的影响，因此，通过扩展，所有情况下的转让，如成人和儿童L2。
The goal of this brief article is to highlight a specific methodological consideration pertaining to the examination of linguistic transfer in sequential language acquisition: When and how can transfer be meaningfully disentangled from issues pertaining to developmental trajectories of the target language? While this methodological issue is relevant for all transfer studies irrespective of learner type or linguistic domain of inquiry, herein we focus on a set of third language acquisition data. We examine the domain of negative quantifiersnobody/nothingand negative polarity itemsanybody/anythingby Catalan-Spanish early bilinguals learning English as the L3 in adulthood. We offer two group analyses. The first is the superset of low beginner proficiency speakers (all participants taking part in a specially designed English course) and then a subset group (only those who were trueab initioL3 learners—that is, with no previous study of English). The analyses combine to show that exposure matters beyond proficiency—even when proficiency is held constant at very low levels, low proficiency L3 learners who have had some instruction/exposure to an L3 pattern differently from trulyab initioL3 learners. We discuss how this reality complicates isolating L3 transfer proper from effects of L3 development/acquisition and thus, by extension, to all cases of transfer such as adult and child L2.