儿童普通话“把”字句发展个案跟踪研究

The Development of Ba Constructions in a Mandarin-speaking Child: A Longitudinal Study

通过对一名儿童的长期跟踪,本研究发现,该儿童使用的几乎都是客事"把"字句;从第30个月起其"把"字句句法结构变得复杂,但几乎没有错序;其"把"字句大多描述已然事件,谓词形式多为动补结构;其"把"字句中的NP2几乎都是有定的。结果表明,受试从开始使用"把"字句时就很好地习得了其句法、语义特性,也遵守其语义、语用限制,与"接口假说"不符。

This study aims to investigate the development of ba constructions with the longitudinal data from a Mandarin-speaking boy. The major findings are as follows. First, he mainly used theme ba constructions. Second, his ba constructions became syntactically complex from the 30＇h month, but almost no modifiers were misplaced. Third, his ba constructions mainly denoted past events and most of the predicates in his ba constructions were V ＋ RVC. And finally, nearly all the NP2 in his ba constructions were definite. The findings above imply that the syntactic and semantic features of ba constructions are well acquired and their semantic and pragmatic constraints are obeyed from the very beginning of Chinese L1 acquisition, which contradicts the Interface Hypothesis.