Wh-fronting in L2 Chinese

二语中的 Wh-fronting

• 批准号: 2751909
• 金额: --
• 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-2751909
• 关键词: Wh; fronting; L2; Chinese

Chinese wh-elements mostly remain in situ but can be fronted under certain conditions, namely wh-topicalisation and wh-focalisation, which have different syntactic, semantic and discourse properties. I suggest that Chinese wh-fronting isdetermined at the multiple interfaces of syntax-semantics-discourse. Meanwhile, English and Russian wh-elements movedifferently but regardless of all conditions in Chinese. Based on the Interface Hypothesis (IH), Chinese wh-fronting ischallenging for second language speakers (L2ers). However, there is no empirical study using both offline and onlinetasks to investigate it with different L1s (English and Russian) under the framework of IH. This study aims to fill thisresearch gap. Research questions: 1) Will the Chinese wh-fronting involving the multiple interfaces be problematic forL2ers? 2) Will the different L1 transfers and the construction frequency affect L2ers' acquisition? 3) Will L2ers performdifferently in offline and online tasks? An offline acceptability judgement task and an online self-paced reading task willbe used to detect the explicit comprehension and implicit real-time processing of Chinese wh-fronting, respectively.Besides, a corpus-based frequency analysis will be conducted. The contributions of this study are: 1) to reveal theproperties of the wh-fronting in L2 Chinese, 2) to enhance our understanding of L2 interfaces, 3) to investigate theexplicit and implicit L2 knowledge of target structure.

汉语中的wh成分大多保持原位，但在一定条件下可以前置，即wh话题化和wh焦点化，它们具有不同的句法、语义和语篇性质。本文认为汉语wh前置是在句法-语义-语篇的多重界面上决定的。同时，英语和俄语中的wh-成分在汉语中的移动方式不同，但不受任何条件的影响。基于界面假设，汉语wh前置对第二语言使用者来说是一个挑战。然而，目前还没有在IH的框架下，使用离线和在线任务来研究不同母语（英语和俄语）的英语学习者的英语学习策略的实证研究。本研究旨在填补这一研究空白。研究问题：1）汉语中涉及多个界面的wh-fronting对第二语言学习者来说会有问题吗？2)母语迁移的不同和构式频率是否会影响二语习得？3)L2人在离线和在线任务中的表现会有不同吗？本研究采用离线可接受性判断任务和在线自定进度阅读任务，分别考察汉语wh-前置的外显理解和内隐实时加工，并进行基于语料库的频率分析。本研究的贡献在于：1）揭示了二语汉语中wh前置的特点，2）加深了我们对二语接口的理解，3）考察了二语对目标结构的外显和内隐知识。