摘要
本文通过跟踪和横断面研究探讨了中国英语学习者对一般现在时第三人称单数标记-s和系动词/助动词is的习得。实验结果表明,他们对is的习得不仅远好于-s,也好于一般现在时不规则动词has和does,而且还过度使用is。这一结果可以在分布形态学、双机制理论以及语言习得理论框架内得到解释。最后,文章还讨论了本研究对于中介语语法损伤研究的意义。
This article reports on a study that investigates how Chinese-speaking learners of English acquire the English third person singular agreement marker -s and the copular/auxiliary is. The results show that the learners had a better mastery of is than -s as well as the present tense irregular verbs has and does. Furthermore, they almost never substituted am, are or be for is and there was a decrease in the use of is, has and does but a better mastery of these three irregular verbs than the corresponding regular forms. However, the learners tended to overuse is. The findings of the present study can be accounted for within the theoretical framework of the Distributed Morphology, the Dual-Mechanism Theory as well as the language acquisition theory based on the minimalist program.
出处
《现代外语》
CSSCI
北大核心
2006年第3期265-274,共10页
Modern Foreign Languages
