A new look at the acquisition of relative clauses
A new look at the acquisition of relative clauses
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DOI：
10.1353/lan.2005.0169
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发表时间：
2005-12-01
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Tomasello, M
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作者：
Diessel, H;Tomasello, M
本研究以两个句子重复任务的数据为基础，对关系从句的习得进行了研究。我们利用儿童自发言语关系结构的材料，要求四岁的英语和德语儿童复述六种不同类型的关系从句。虽然英语和德语的关系从句在结构上有很大差异，但研究结果是相似的：不及物主语关系比及物主语关系和直接宾语关系引起的错误少，而间接宾语关系和间接宾语关系引起的错误又比间接宾语关系和间接宾语关系引起的错误少；最后，所有格关系引起的问题最多。以前的分析认为关系从句的习得是通过填充词和间隙之间的距离来解释的，本文提出了一个多因素分析，认为习得过程主要取决于各种关系从句之间的相似性以及它们与简单句之间的关系。
This study reconsiders the acquisition of relative clauses based on data from two sentence-repetition tasks. Using materials modeled on the relative constructions of spontaneous child speech, we asked four-year-old English- and German-speaking children to repeat six different types of relative clauses. Although English and German relative clauses are structurally very different, the results were similar across studies: intransitive subject relatives caused fewer errors than transitive subject relatives and direct object relatives, which in turn caused fewer errors than indirect object relatives and oblique relatives; finally, genitive relatives caused by far the most problems. Challenging previous analyses in which the acquisition of relative clauses has been explained by the varying distance between filler and gap, we propose a multifactorial analysis in which the acquisition process is determined primarily by the similarity between the various types of relative clauses and their relationship to simple sentences.