Accessibility-Complexity-Efficiency Model of Second Language Processing:Theoretical Proposal and Experimental Evidence
The paper intends to propose a new model of second language processing:Accessibility-Complexity-Efficiency Model of Second Language Processing or ACE Model of SLP.The models that the scholars in Western countries proposed such as Slabakova's Bottleneck Hypothesis and Clahsen and Felser's Shallow Structure Hypothesis sometimes cannot account for the processes and outcome of Chinese second language acquisition.In terms of three components Accessibility,Complexity and Efficiency,the paper believes that they interact with and influence one another.Firstly second language processing pursues efficiency and is efficiency-driven while linguistic local complexities affect linguistic accessibility which,however,influences the efficiency of second language processing,suggesting that promoting accessibility is a prerequisite for efficiency of second language processing.Secondly,different languages exhibit different patterns of linguistic local complexities.The major discrepancy between Mandarin Chinese and Western languages such as English and French lies at the fact that they exhibit different patterns of linguistic local complexities.The local complexities that Western languages show are functional morphology and multilevel embedding of sentences while Chinese exhibits complicated semantic collocations and relatively simple syntax(for example Chinese classifier system).Finally,the paper quotes experimental studies of English and Chinese as second language processing,thus providing evidence for this model,and suggests that more experiments are needed for viability and interpretability of this model.
second language processingaccessibilitycomplexityefficiency
万方数据
维普
