The Researcher Gave the Subject a Test about Himself: Problems of Ambiguity and Preference in the Investigation of Reflexive Binding
The Researcher Gave the Subject a Test about Himself: Problems of Ambiguity and Preference in the Investigation of Reflexive Binding
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研究人员对受试者进行了自我测试：反射性束缚研究中的模糊性和偏好问题
DOI：
10.1111/0023-8333.41997004
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发表时间：
1997
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
P. Prévost
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作者：
Lydia White;Joyce Bruhn‐Garavito;Takako Kawasaki;Joe Pater;P. Prévost
研究第二语言学习者的反身约束知识存在方法上的困难，特别是在潜在歧义句中，学习者或本族语者可能偏好一种解释。在本文中，我们比较了两个真值判断任务，一个涉及的故事和其他图片。在这两项任务中，我们提供了潜在歧义句子的不同解释的上下文。我们测试了各种各样的句子类型，包括主谓先行词或宾语先行词的单主谓句（英语中的歧义）和具有本地或远程先行词的双主谓句（日语中的歧义）。参与者是中级日语和法语英语作为第二语言（ESL）的学习者，以及母语控制。故事任务产生了显着更高的比例正确接受的对象先行词的反身代词，无论是在ESL学习者和母语者的情况下。这些结果表明，某些任务可能会导致低估学习者的第二语言能力，一个必须谨慎的假设的基础上的单一任务的中介语语法的性质。
There are methodological difficulties in investigating second language (L2) learners' knowledge of reflexive binding, particularly in the case of potentially ambiguous sentences where the learner or native speaker may have a preference for one interpretation over the other. In this paper, we compare two truth-value judgment tasks, one involving stories and the other pictures. In both tasks, we provided contexts for different interpretations of potentially ambiguous sentences. We tested a variety of sentence types, including monoclausal sentences with subject or object antecedents (ambiguous in English) and biclausal sentences with local or long-distance antecedents (ambiguous in Japanese). Participants were intermediate-level Japanese-speaking and French-speaking learners of English as a second language (ESL), as well as native speaker controls. The story task yielded a significantly higher proportion of correct acceptances of object antecedents for reflexives, both in the case of ESL learners and native speakers. These results suggest that certain tasks can lead to an underestimation of learners' L2 competence and that one must be cautious in making assumptions about the nature of the interlanguage grammar on the basis of single tasks.