The Interpretation of English Reflexives and Pronouns by Adult Speakers of Chinese An analysis of language transfers

Adam Zheng Zhi-Ren
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The study reports the L2 acquisition of English reflexives and pronouns between native English speakers and adult Chinese speakers of L2 English. It is found that Chinese pronouns are quite similar with English, and Chinese and English pronouns can be either long-distantly binding or referred to others except for the local domain in complex sentences. However, Chinese reflexives are not the same as English reflexives. Chinese reflexives have two types, monomorphemic ziji and polymorphemic ta ziji, and one of the goals on the study is to test whether Chinese speakers of L2 English will domain the local binding in the complex sentences of English reflexives himself/herself. Finally, the results of the interpretation of English pronouns and reflexives show that L1 transfer cannot totally account for the interpretation of sentences. Two theories thus called Full Transfer/Full Access (Schwartz & Sprouse, 1994; 1996) and Partial Access (Tsimpli & Roussou, 1991) probably can account for the results of the present study.
成人汉语使用者对英语反身代词的解读&语言迁移分析
本研究报告了英语母语者和成人汉语二语者对英语反身代词的二语习得情况。研究发现,汉语代词与英语非常相似,汉语和英语代词在复句中除了局部区域外,都可以是远距离的结合或指称。然而,汉语反身词与英语反身词是不一样的。汉语反身词有单形反身词和多形反身词两种类型,本研究的目的之一是检验汉语二语使用者是否会对英语反身词复句中的局部约束进行自我控制。最后,英语代词和反身代词的翻译结果表明,母语迁移不能完全解释句子的解释。两种理论因此被称为完全转移/完全访问(Schwartz & Sprouse, 1994;1996)和Partial Access (Tsimpli & Roussou, 1991)可能可以解释本研究的结果。
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