变异语言学视角下英语并列二项式词序多元定量研究

A multivariate quantitative study on word order preference of English binomials from a variationist linguistics perspective

本研究采用基于语料库的变异语言学视角及多因素分析的研究方法,借助英国国家语料库和R统计软件,对名词和形容词并列二项式词序的制约因素进行定量研究。结果表明:制约名词和形容词并列二项式词序的主要因素不尽相同。在绝大多数情况下,音节数量和尾音响亮度分别对名词和形容词并列二项式的词序起到决定性作用。

From a corpus-based variationist linguistics perspective,this study explores the impact of 10 constraints on word order preference of noun binomials and adjective binomials and the importance ranking by means of BNC corpus data and R software.It is found that the word order preferences of noun and adjective binomials are affected by different constraints.Number of syllables is the most powerful constraint of noun binomials,whereas final sonority is the most powerful constraint of adjective binomials.