中国高级英语学习者对及物心理动词的加工——“使用事件”视域下的浅结构假说

The Processing of Transitive Psych Verbs by Chinese Advanced ESL Learners:The Shallow Structure Hypothesis from the Perspective of Usage Event

本研究基于“使用事件”视域,考察中国高级英语学习者对及物类心理动词的加工,旨在对浅结构假说进行验证和补充。结果表明:1)高水平二语者的语义和句法加工能力都不及一语者;2)二语语义信息和句法信息紧密关联,效力相当,不存在二语者过度依赖语义信息的情形;3)母语和频率均对二语加工具有重要影响作用。研究发现为校准浅结构假说提供了新视角。

This study aims to re⁃examine and further develop the Shallow Structure Hypothesis within the perspective of Usage Event by checking how Chinese advanced EFL learners process the English transitive psych verbs.Results show that(1)Chinese advanced EFL learners treated the L2 information in syntax and semantics in a way fundamentally different from native speakers;(2)their L2 knowledge in semantics and syntax not only correlated with each other but also bore equal weight,which gave no evidence to confirm that L2 speakers rely excessively on semantic information;and(3)the cross⁃linguistic similarities and input frequency would affect the L2 processing to a large extent.These findings shed new light on the calibrating of the Shallow Structure Hypothesis.