Opitz Andreas, Bordag Denisa, Furgoni Alberto
Herder-Institut, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 27;13:910849. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.910849. eCollection 2022.
This study investigates how two non-finite forms, infinitives and conversion nouns, are represented in the mind of L1 and L2 speakers and what is their relationship to other members of the corresponding word family. German native speakers and proficient German learners with Czech as L1 participated in four overt priming experiments involving a grammatical judgement task. We investigated the relationship between infinitives (Experiment 1) and conversion nouns (Experiment 2) and formally identical verbal or noun forms. We further focussed on the relationship between conversion nouns and regular nominal derivation forms with two derivational suffixes: and (Experiments 3 and 4). Our results show that the two non-finite forms differ in their relations to other members of a word family and do not constitute a special class of non-finites as suggested in previous literature. While German infinitives seem to be closer related to finite verbal forms, conversion nouns behave in the same way as other regular nominal derivatives within the same word family. As for the German L1 and L2 contrast, no significant difference in the mental representation of the examined forms was found. This finding suggests that with respect to the explored phenomena, proficient learners rely on the same linguistic organisation as L1 speakers.
本研究调查了两种非限定形式，即不定式和转化名词，在母语者和二语者头脑中的表征方式，以及它们与相应词族中其他成员的关系。以德语为母语的人以及以捷克语为母语且德语熟练的学习者参与了四项涉及语法判断任务的显性启动实验。我们研究了不定式（实验1）和转化名词（实验2）与形式上相同的动词或名词形式之间的关系。我们还进一步关注了转化名词与带有两个派生后缀的规则名词派生形式之间的关系：以及（实验3和4）。我们的研究结果表明，这两种非限定形式与词族中其他成员的关系有所不同，并且并不像先前文献中所提出的那样构成一类特殊的非限定形式。虽然德语不定式似乎与限定动词形式关系更为密切，但转化名词的表现与同一词族中的其他规则名词派生形式相同。至于德语母语者和二语者的对比，在所研究形式的心理表征方面未发现显著差异。这一发现表明，就所探讨的现象而言，熟练学习者与母语者依赖相同的语言组织方式。
