L2 Chinese acquisition of the scope of negation by Korean-speaking learners:An interface approach
The Chinese negator bu(不)can both precede and follow such elements as adverbs and modal verbs.Also,it can be placed"inside"and"outside"a v-v compound.These types of word order variation lead to change of scope as well as interpretive differ-ence,which presents features of syntax-semantics interface.Thirty-two Chinese native speakers and forty-nine Korean-speaking L2 learners of Chinese participated in an off-line sentence-making task.The results show that the L2 participants performed in a native-like way across three types of word order variation while the interaction between bu and ad-verbs was more difficult to acquire,which supports the Interface Hypothesis.The influ-ences of L1 and target language input(henceforth input)were also discussed.L2 proficien-cy played a significant role in the L2 Chinese acquisition of the scope of negation but other factors such as L1 transfer and input were also found accountable for the acquisition delay in the interaction between bu and adverbs.
Korean-speaking learnersscope of Chinese negationInterface Hypothe-sis
NETL
NSTL
万方数据
维普
