Abstract
通过对比51名4~7岁美国华裔汉英双语儿童被动句、进行体、复杂句3项特殊句法指标产出能力发展特征,研究显示:4~7岁间,语言经验对汉英双语儿童句子产出能力有显著影响,入学后6~7岁组儿童英语句法能力明显优于汉语;4~7岁间儿童已普遍习得汉语被动句结构,英语复杂句能力明显优于汉语;汉英双语儿童句法能力呈现显著正相关发展;与以往双语儿童词汇能力研究对比发现语言经验和年龄因素对汉英词汇和句法能力存在不同影响度。本研究为国内外汉英双语儿童句子产出研究以及我国儿童句法教学提供了实证依据。
By examining the syntactic production ability among 51 4- to 7-year-old Mandarin-English bilingual children of Chinese heritage in the United States through the tasks of passive voice, progressive aspect and complex sentence production, this research showed: between age 4~7, language experience had significant effects on the children’s syntactic ability, with children of 6~7 (the school-age group) performing better on English syntactic production than on Chinese; in this period, the children had mastered Chinese passive voice and their English complex sentence production was significantly better than the Chinese one; and they displayed a significant positive correlation cross- lingual development in overall syntactic ability; in comparison to past studies of semantic development, different impact from language experience and age was identified on semantic and syntactic ability of bilingual children. These findings have implications for syntactic developmental studies and education of bilingual children at home and abroad.
By examining the syntactic production ability among 51 4- to 7-year-old Mandarin-English bilingual children of Chinese heritage in the United States through the tasks of passive voice, progressive aspect and complex sentence production, this research showed: between age 4~7, language experience had significant effects on the children’s syntactic ability, with children of 6~7 (the school-age group) performing better on English syntactic production than on Chinese; in this period, the children had mastered Chinese passive voice and their English complex sentence production was significantly better than the Chinese one; and they displayed a significant positive correlation cross- lingual development in overall syntactic ability; in comparison to past studies of semantic development, different impact from language experience and age was identified on semantic and syntactic ability of bilingual children. These findings have implications for syntactic developmental studies and education of bilingual children at home and abroad.
Translated title of the contribution | A Contrastive Study of Syntactic Production Ability in Mandarin-English Bilingual Children in the United States |
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Original language | Chinese (Simplified) |
Pages (from-to) | 1668-1676 |
Journal | 现代语言学 |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 Aug 2022 |
Keywords
- Mandarin-English Bilingual Children
- Syntactic Production
- Contrastive Study