类型学的标记理论与英语非真实条件句的习得

标记理论是类型学的一个重要理论,它的发展对二语习得研究影响深远。在类型标记性基础上提出的标记差异假说,指出利用两种语言的标记性可以推测二语习得的困难。本文通过对中国学生英语非真实条件句的习得状况进行问卷调查和统计分析,论证了标记差异假说预测二语习得困难所在及困难程度的有效性。

Marking theory,a basic theory of typology,has exerted a far-reaching influence on the study of second language acquisition(SLA).The Markedness Differential Hypothesis,based on typological markedness,asserts that within the areas of difference between the native language and target language,marked structures are more difficult than the corresponding unmarked structures,and that the relative degree of difficulty will correspond to the relative degree of markedness.This paper makes an investigation into the acquisition of English unreal conditionals by Chinese college students.The result reveals the validity of the Markedness Differential Hypothesis in predicting the relative difficulty in SLA.