Typological constraints in foreign language acquisition: The expression of voluntary motion by upper intermediate and advanced Russian learners of English
Typological constraints in foreign language acquisition: The expression of voluntary motion by upper intermediate and advanced Russian learners of English
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外语习得的类型学限制：中高级和高级俄语英语学习者的随意运动表达
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10.1075/lia.3.2.04iak
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2012
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T. Iakovleva
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T. Iakovleva
本研究探讨了类型学限制对第二语言习得的影响。它探讨了从第一语言到外语（L1 到 L2）的概念转移的假设。基于 Talmy (2000) 对动词框架语言和卫星框架语言的区分，基于语料库的分析比较了对沿三个路径（向上、向下、横向）的自愿运动事件的描述，这些描述是在受控情况下引出的，由母语者（俄语、英语）和两个级别（中高级和高级）的俄语学习者在课堂环境中学习英语。结果表明，尽管俄语和英语母语者的表现存在相当大的差异，特别是在词汇化模式的相对变异性方面，但第二语言学习者产生的特殊形式和结构很少反映第一语言中的运动概念化，这表明缺乏从第一语言的实质性迁移。
This study examines the impact of typological constraints on second language acquisition. It explores the hypothesis of a conceptual transfer from first to foreign language (L1 to L2). Based on Talmy’s (2000) distinction between Verb- and Satellite-framed languages, corpus-based analyses compare descriptions of voluntary motion events along three paths (up, down, across), elicited in a controlled situation from native speakers (Russian, English) and Russian learners at two levels (upper- intermediate and advanced) acquiring English in a classroom setting. Results show that in spite of considerable differences between Russian and English native speakers’ performance, particularly with respect to the relative variability in their lexicalization patterns, idiosyncratic forms and structures produced by L2 learners rarely mirror motion conceptualization in their first language, which suggests the absence of a substantial transfer from L1.