Processing of L2 English Relative Clauses - Testing the Filler-Gap Hypothesis

• 영문명: Processing of L2 English Relative Clauses
• 발행기관: 한국외국어교육학회
• 저자명: Dami Lee(이다미) Soo-ok Kweon(권수옥)
• 간행물 정보: 『Foreign Languages Education』Vol.15 No.1, 91~107쪽, 전체 17쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.06.30

영문 초록

  This study examined processing of L2 English relative clauses by testing the Filler-Gap Hypothesis (Hawkins, 1999; O"Grady 1997). For that goal, we partially replicated Diessel and Tomasello (2004), who examined L1 acquisition of relative clauses by English-and German-speaking children. The Filler-Gap Hypothesis states that the structural distance between head and gap determines the processing difficulty pertained within relative clauses. Taking this hypothesis as a theoretical starting-point, we used an elicited imitation task to tap 48 L2 learners" knowledge of English relative clauses. The results of the study demonstrated that subject relatives retained greater accuracy scores than object relatives, which in turn retained greater accuracy scores than indirect object and oblique relatives. These results were largely consistent with the predictions made by the FGH, but only partially consistent with Diessel and Tomasello"s L1 data.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Research Background
Ⅲ. Methods
Ⅳ. Results
Ⅴ. Discussion
Ⅵ. Conclusion
References
Appendix: Test Sentences

키워드

relative clauses L2 processing 관계절 L2정보처리