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The acquisition of adverbial clauses by children acquiring English: the effect of syntax

儿童英语习得中状语从句的习得：句法的影响

基本信息

批准号：
2751176
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2751176
关键词：
acquisition adverbial clauses children acquiring

项目摘要

The goal of this project is to investigate the effect of syntactic factors on children's acquisition of adverbial clauses inEnglish. Whereas many studies have explored the role of semantic factors, syntactic factors have been much lessexplored. I will conduct comprehension tasks with monolingual English children in years 4-5 (ages 8-10) to investigatethe effect of three syntactic distinctions between adverbial clauses. None of these syntactic distinctions have beeninvestigated in relation to acquisition in English and two have not been investigated in any language. Since one of thesesyntactic distinctions has never been formally analysed, I will provide an analysis for it (which may have implications forthe typology of adverbial clauses). I will also use my results to shed light on whether the diachronic changes thatadverbial clauses have undergone in English could have plausibly been driven by children. To do this, I will compare thetypes of adverbial clauses that the children in my study find most difficult to the changes adverbial clauses haveundergone in English (using corpora, such as the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose (Taylor etal. 2003) and the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English (Kroch 2020)). This project will involve the collection oforiginal data which will improve our understanding of the acquisition of adverbial clauses and our knowledge of the effectof syntax on the acquisition of late phenomena generally.

本研究旨在探讨句法因素对儿童习得英语状语从句的影响。虽然许多研究探讨了语义因素的作用，但句法因素的研究却很少。我将对4-5岁（8-10岁）的单语英语儿童进行理解任务，以调查状语从句之间的三种句法区别的效果。这些句法上的区别没有一个被研究过与英语习得的关系，有两个在任何语言中都没有被研究过。由于这些句法上的区别之一从来没有被正式分析过，我将提供一个分析（这可能对状语从句的类型学有影响）。我也将用我的研究结果来阐明英语中状语从句所经历的历时变化是否可能是由儿童驱动的。为此，我将比较儿童在我的研究中发现最困难的状语从句类型和英语中状语从句经历的变化（使用语料库，如约克-多伦多-赫尔辛基古英语散文分析语料库（Taylor埃塔尔. 2003）和历史英语的Penn解析语料库（Kroch 2020））。这个项目将涉及收集原始数据，这将提高我们对状语从句习得的理解，以及我们对句法对一般晚现习得的影响的认识。