Tracing trajectories: Motion event construal by advanced L2 French-English and L2 French-German speakers
Tracing trajectories: Motion event construal by advanced L2 French-English and L2 French-German speakers
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追踪轨迹：由高级 L2 法语-英语和 L2 法语-德语使用者进行运动事件解释
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2012
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C. Stutterheim
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M. Carroll,;M. Lambert;K. Weimar;M. Flecken;M. Flecken;C. Stutterheim
尽管罗曼语和日耳曼语言之间作为动词框架与卫星框架的类型对比（Talmy 1985）构成了许多关于二语习得的实证研究的背景，但迄今为止尚无定论的情况需要进行更差异化、更细粒度的分析。本研究超越了基于这种类型对比的解释，并考虑了空间概念的主要来源，以便塑造运动中的实体在空间中移动时所追踪的轨迹：V语言中的实体与S语言中的地面特征。它调查了为什么英语和德语的高级法语学习者难以掌握使用 L2 典型的空间概念来塑造轨迹，尽管相关概念可以在他们的 L1 中表达。该分析基于相同的视频剪辑集，将三种语言的母语使用者与母语法语-母语英语和母语法语-母语德语使用者的运动事件描述进行了比较，表明学习者没有完全掌握母语特定空间概念的使用。我们认为，根据运动事件与这些来源的兼容性，从运动实体与地面实体衍生的编码概念导致对运动事件的不同方面的关注，并且很难在 L2 习得中重组。
Although the typological contrast between Romance and Germanic languages as verb-framed versus satellite-framed (Talmy 1985) forms the background for many empirical studies on L2 acquisition, the inconclusive picture to date calls for more differentiated, fine-grained analyses. The present study goes beyond explanations based on this typological contrast and takes into account the sources from which spatial concepts are mainly derived in order to shape the trajectory traced by the entity in motion when moving through space: the entity in V-languages versus features of the ground in S-languages. It investigates why advanced French learners of English and German have difficulty acquiring the use of spatial concepts typical of the L2s to shape the trajectory, although relevant concepts can be expressed in their L1. The analysis compares motion event descriptions, based on the same sets of video clips, of L1 speakers of the three languages to L1 French-L2 English and L1 French-L2 German speakers, showing that the learners do not fully acquire the use of L2-specific spatial concepts. We argue that encoded concepts derived from the entity in motion vs. the ground lead to a focus on different aspects of motion events, in accordance with their compatibility with these sources, and are difficult to restructure in L2 acquisition.