二语水平在三语习得者反向迁移中的调节作用

The Modulation of Second Language Proficiency in the Backward Transfer of Trilingual Learners

招募汉英、韩英和汉英韩组别的受试,探究二语水平是否调节三语向二语的反向迁移,发现当二语处于高、低两个水平时,英语反身代词理解的准确率不存在显著差异,未提供二语水平起到调节作用的有力证据。该结果表明用传统方式测量的综合语言水平无法有效反映反身代词约束原则的习得路径,进而证实Ahn和Mao所得出的结论,即韩英、汉英和汉英韩组在反身代词理解准确率方面存在的差异,并非由其二语水平的显著差异所导致。

The present study enrolled participants with CE,KE,and CEK language configurations,and manipulated their L2 English proficiency levels,in an effort to explore if L2-English proficiency modulated the backward transfer that had been detected in the interpretation of bindings of normal and exempt anaphors with L2 and L3 learners.The results of the contrastive study did not reveal positive evidence for a robust role of L2 proficiency,which indicated that the developmental path towards the target grammar of reflexive binding was not reflected by the general proficiency measured in traditional ways.Furthermore,the results reinforced the conclusion Ahn and Mao had drawn previously that the differentiating performance of the KE,the CE,and CEK group in the reflexive interpretations was less likely to be introduced by the significant difference in their L2 scores.