Köymen Bahar, Lieven Elena, Brandt Silke
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,Germany.
University of Manchester,UK.
J Child Lang. 2016 Jan;43(1):22-42. doi: 10.1017/S0305000914000853. Epub 2015 Feb 3.
This study investigates the coordination of matrix and subordinate clauses within finite complement-clause constructions. The data come from diary and audio recordings which include the utterances produced by an American English-speaking child, L, between the ages 1;08 and 3;05. We extracted all the finite complement-clause constructions that L produced and compared the grammatical acceptability of these utterances with that of the simple sentences of the same length produced within the same two weeks and with that of the simple sentences containing the same verb produced within the same month. The results show that L is more likely to make syntactic errors in finite complement-clause constructions than she does in her simple sentences of the same length or with the same verb. This suggests that the errors are more likely to arise from the syntactic and semantic coordination of the two clauses rather than limitations in performance or lexical knowledge.
本研究调查了限定性补语从句结构中主句和从句的协调性。数据来自日记和音频记录，其中包括一位以美式英语为母语的儿童L在1岁8个月至3岁5个月期间的话语。我们提取了L所产生的所有限定性补语从句结构，并将这些话语的语法可接受性与同一两周内产生的相同长度的简单句以及同一月内产生的包含相同动词的简单句的语法可接受性进行比较。结果表明，L在限定性补语从句结构中比在相同长度或相同动词的简单句中更容易出现句法错误。这表明这些错误更有可能源于两个从句的句法和语义协调，而不是表现或词汇知识的限制。
