中国学生汉语运动事件的言语表征发展研究

A Study on Chinese Students' Verbalization Development of Motion Events in Chinese

本研究从认知能力发展和汉语类型学角度考察了中国学生汉语运动事件的言语表征发展情况。研究发现:1)中国学生在表征运动事件时,从3岁开始会同时编码[方式]和[路径]信息,且"方式动词+路径动词"的表达方式占主体;2)"方式动词+路径动词"结构存在显著的组间差异,方式动词的类型和[背景]信息随着年龄的增长呈现出多样性,话语密度增强,10岁时已达到成人水平;3)"方式动词+路径动词"结构中,大多数路径动词可做谓语中心词,汉语属平衡框架语言,但同时也具有卫星框架语言的特点;4)空间语言的发展同时受认知因素和母语类型特点的影响。

This study investigates Chinese students＇ verbalization development of motion events in Chinese from the perspec- tive of cognitive typology. The results show that 1） when verbalizing motion events, Chinese students can encode both Manner and Path from three years of age, and the majority of motion verb constructions include both manner and path verbs ; 2） the u- ses of serial verb constructions show significant age differences ; types of manner verbs, background information and utterance density increase with age; and ten-year-old students can verbalize motion events in an adult-like way; 3） most path verbs in serial verb constructions can be main verbs ; Chinese is equipollently-framed ; and it also shows some characteristics of a satel- lite-framed language; 4） both cognitive factors and typological properties contribute to Chinese students＇ spatial language de- velopment.