Bloom L, Rispoli M, Gartner B, Hafitz J
J Child Lang. 1989 Feb;16(1):101-20. doi: 10.1017/s0305000900013465.
This study concerns the acquisition of complex sentences with perception and epistemic verbs that take a second verb in their complements. The acquisition of complementation began between two and three years of age in this longitudinal study of four children's spontaneous speech. The results of the study showed that (1) complement types and complementizer connectives and (2) the discourse contexts in which complementation occurred were specific to individual matrix verbs. The most frequent verbs acquired were the perception verbs see and look and the epistemic verbs think and know. Developments in both discourse and syntax indicated that these verbs expressed attitudes of certainty/uncertainty toward the content expressed in their complements. The results are discussed in terms of both linguistic and psychological factors in the acquisition of complex sentences with complementation.
本研究关注的是带有感知动词和认知动词的复合句的习得情况，这些动词在其补语中带有第二个动词。在这项对四个孩子自发言语的纵向研究中，补语结构的习得始于两到三岁。研究结果表明：（1）补语类型和补语连接词，以及（2）出现补语结构的语篇语境，都特定于各个主句动词。习得频率最高的动词是感知动词“see”（看见）和“look”（看），以及认知动词“think”（认为）和“know”（知道）。语篇和句法方面的发展都表明，这些动词表达了对其补语中所表达内容的确定/不确定态度。本文从带有补语结构的复合句习得过程中的语言和心理因素两方面对研究结果进行了讨论。
