Markedness and Salience in Acquiring Preference for Preposition Stranding
Acquisition data collected shows unequivocally that the marked PS (preposition stranding) is easier to acquire before its unmarked counterpart PPP (preposition pied piping), which is apparently contrary to the markedness hypothesis, however, consistent with the syntactically termed Economy Principle. Of prime interest is that the acquisitional sequence in real time is: No-Prep < PS < PPP. Furthermore, learners manifest such tendency: more PS in wh-questions whereas more PPP in relative clauses, which is accounted for as the influence of topic- command structure. Besides, the markedness of who/whom also exerts its influence on the acquisitional sequence, which provides the prerequisite for the processing acquiring mechanism hypothesis.
preposition stranding markedness theory Economy Principle topic-command structure processing acquiring mechanism hypothesis
Yang Jianhong
Tianjin University, Renai College, Tianjin, China, 301636
国际会议
2017东北亚语言学文学和教学国际论坛(2017 NALLTS)
山西吕梁
英文
245-251
2017-06-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）