Doctoral Dissertation Research: The acquisition of anaphoric direct objects in a third language: A variationist perspective

博士论文研究：第三语言中照应直接宾语的习得：变体观点

• 批准号: 2235101
• 负责人: Patricia Amaral
• 金额: $ 1.16万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235101&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; acquisition; anaphoric

When bilingual speakers are learning a third language, the two previously learned languages may influence this learning in various ways under different linguistic and social conditions. This doctoral dissertation investigates the influence of first and second language in third language acquisition. By acknowledging the inherent variability in language use by multilingual speakers, this study facilitates public understanding of language uses that are deemed "non-standard" in formal education, to increase understanding of multilingual speakers. This study further benefits language education in that findings help language educators identify learning difficulties specific to bilingual and multilingual speakers learning an additional language.This doctoral dissertation study elicits third language learners' judgments on the naturalness of sentences with either expressed or omitted anaphoric direct objects in each of the three languages L1, L2, and L3. In the following conversation, "him" is an anaphoric direct object referring to "John": "-Did you see John? -No, I didn't see him." To establish points of comparison, judgment is elicited for the same sentences by native speakers, as well as those whose L1 and L2 are the L2 and L3 of the experimental group, respectively. The research design allows the researchers to tease apart the predictions of several existing hypotheses about factors that influence L3 acquisition. These include influence from the first language, influence from the second language, influence from the language that is more typologically similar to the third language, and influence from the language primarily used in daily life.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

双语者在学习第三语言时，在不同的语言和社会条件下，之前学过的两种语言可能会以不同的方式影响这种学习。本博士论文主要研究第一语言和第二语言对第三语言习得的影响。通过承认多语使用者使用语言的内在可变性，本研究促进了公众对正规教育中被视为“非标准”的语言使用的理解，以增加对多语使用者的理解。这项研究进一步有利于语言教育，因为研究结果有助于语言教育者识别双语和多语使用者学习额外语言时特有的学习困难。本博士论文研究引出了第三语言学习者对第一、二、三种语言中表达或省略回指直接宾语的句子的自然程度的判断。在下面的对话中，“him”是指代“John”的回指式直接宾语：“-Did you see John?”-不，我没看见他。”为了建立比较点，本族语使用者以及L1和L2分别为实验组L2和L3的人对相同的句子进行判断。研究设计允许研究人员梳理出影响三语习得因素的几个现有假设的预测。这些影响包括来自第一语言的影响，来自第二语言的影响，来自类型学上与第三语言更相似的语言的影响，以及来自日常生活中主要使用的语言的影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。