Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Fascicolo | 56 | 2020
Articolo | Acquisition of Double-Nominative Constructions by Italian L1 Learners of Chinese
Abstract
This paper presents new results of an ongoing cross-sectional corpus study investigating the acquisition of Chinese word order by Italian L1 learners. Specifically, it focuses on the acquisition of ‘double-nominative constructions’, as well as the correct sequential organisation of topical and focal information in the Chinese sentence. The analysis is conducted on three learner corpora, created by the Author on the basis of a test submitted to three groups of university (BA and MA)-level Italian L1 learners of Chinese, for a total of 132 learners. Quantitative and qualitative analysis conducted on the collected data show that, while the double-subject construction may appear as a simple and straightforward pattern, it is in fact a rather difficult construction to acquire and spontaneously produce for Italian L1 learners. Rather, students tend to use patterns they are used to in their L1 (or other L2s, such as English). These include the [NP1 have NP2], [NP1 的 NP2], or [NP1 adjectival predicate] patterns, among other types, thus confirming the inhibitive L1 transfer hypotheses of this study.
Presentato: 02 Marzo 2020 | Accettato: 29 Maggio 2020 | Pubblicato 30 Giugno 2020 | Lingua: en
Keywords Inhibitive transfer • Italian L1 learners • Chinese SLA • Cross-sectional study • Double-nominative constructions • Learner corpus
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2020/01/015
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dc.title |
Acquisition of Double-Nominative Constructions by Italian L1 Learners of Chinese. A Cross-Sectional Corpus Study |
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Morbiato Anna |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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Articolo |
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en |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2020/56/acquisition-of-double-nominative-constructions-by/ |
dc.description.abstract |
This paper presents new results of an ongoing cross-sectional corpus study investigating the acquisition of Chinese word order by Italian L1 learners. Specifically, it focuses on the acquisition of ‘double-nominative constructions’, as well as the correct sequential organisation of topical and focal information in the Chinese sentence. The analysis is conducted on three learner corpora, created by the Author on the basis of a test submitted to three groups of university (BA and MA)-level Italian L1 learners of Chinese, for a total of 132 learners. Quantitative and qualitative analysis conducted on the collected data show that, while the double-subject construction may appear as a simple and straightforward pattern, it is in fact a rather difficult construction to acquire and spontaneously produce for Italian L1 learners. Rather, students tend to use patterns they are used to in their L1 (or other L2s, such as English). These include the [NP1 have NP2], [NP1 的 NP2], or [NP1 adjectival predicate] patterns, among other types, thus confirming the inhibitive L1 transfer hypotheses of this study. |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 56 | Giugno 2020 |
dc.issued |
2020-06-30 |
dc.dateAccepted |
2020-05-29 |
dc.dateSubmitted |
2020-03-02 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2385-3042 |
dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2020/01/015 |
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yes |
dc.subject |
Chinese SLA |
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Chinese SLA |
dc.subject |
Cross-sectional study |
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Cross-sectional study |
dc.subject |
Double-nominative constructions |
dc.subject |
Double-nominative constructions |
dc.subject |
Inhibitive transfer |
dc.subject |
Inhibitive transfer |
dc.subject |
Italian L1 learners |
dc.subject |
Italian L1 learners |
dc.subject |
Learner corpus |
dc.subject |
Learner corpus |
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