Acquisition of the Mandarin ba-Construction by Cantonese Learners

Yike Yang
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: Optionality, defined as the coexistence of two or more variants of a given construction, has been investigated in second language studies. Following the notion of optionality, this study defines the Mandarin ba -construction and its corresponding non- ba -forms as optional variants to examine Cantonese-speaking learners’ acquisition of Mandarin. We designed an elicited production task and an acceptability judgement task to test the disposal and locational displacement types of the ba -construction, and invited Cantonese learners and Mandarin native speakers to attend the experiments. The Cantonese learners, like learners with other language backgrounds, produced fewer ba -sentences compared with native speakers, but the Cantonese learners produced much more ba -sentences than learners with other language backgrounds and were aware of the constraints on the ba -construction, which is probably due to the existence of the similar zoeng -construction in Cantonese. Although at an advanced level, the performance of the Cantonese learners diverged from that of the native speakers in both the production and the judgement, which demonstrates the existence of optionality in the Cantonese learners’ interlanguage grammars.
粤语学习者普通话巴构的习得
:选择性,定义为给定结构的两个或多个变体的共存,已在第二语言研究中进行了研究。根据选择性概念,本研究将普通话ba结构及其相应的非ba形式定义为选择性变体,以考察广东话学习者的普通话习得情况。我们设计了一个引发生产任务和一个可接受性判断任务来测试ba结构的处置和位置位移类型,并邀请广东人和普通话母语者参加实验。广东话学习者和其他语言背景的学习者一样,与母语为广东人的学习者相比,产生的ba句更少,但广东话学习器产生的ba句子比其他语言背景学习者多得多,并且意识到ba结构的限制,这可能是由于广东话中存在类似的zoeng结构。尽管处于高级水平,但广东话学习者在产出和判断方面与母语者的表现都存在差异,这表明广东语学习者的中介语语法存在选择性。
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