The Acquisition of the WH-Movement Operation in English by Japanese EFL Learners

• 資料種別: 博士論文
• タイトル: The Acquisition of the WH-Movement Operation in English by Japanese EFL Learners
• 著者・編者: 長谷部, めぐみ
• 著者標目: 長谷部, めぐみ
• 出版年月日等: 2014-03-26
• 出版年（W3CDTF）: 2014-03-26
• 並列タイトル等: 日本人英語学習者における英語のWH移動操作の習得
• 授与機関名: 横浜国立大学
• 授与年月日: 2014-03-26
• 授与年月日（W3CDTF）: 2014-03-26
• 報告番号: 甲第1638号
• 学位: 博士(学術)
• 博論授与番号: 甲第1638号
• 本文の言語コード: eng
• NDLC: UT51
• 対象利用者: 一般
• 一般注記: The goal of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between L2 acquisition and the involvement of the principles of Universal Grammar (UG) by Japanese EFL learners. In previous studies, there are three hypotheses on the relationship between them; (i) the No UG Access Hypothesis, (ii) the Full UG Access Hypothesis, and (iii) the Transfer Hypothesis. To investigate which hypothesis is supported by data from Japanese EFL learners, I focused on the wh-movement operation in English, which Japanese does not have overtly. There are two research questions. One is to investigate whether syntactic asymmetries affect the acquisition of the wh-movement operation by Japanese EFL learners. The other is to investigate whether the UG principles are active for the wh-movement operation by Japanese EFL learners. To address these research questions, I conducted (i) an interrogative formation test, (ii) a translation test, and (iii) a grammaticality judgment test, to Japanese EFL learners, and obtained the following results. First, I focused on junior high school EFL learners, who typically learn the wh-movement operation for the first time, and examined the acquisition of the wh-interrogative construction with short distance wh-movement. I found that the Japanese EFL learners showed (i) two types of argument/adjunct asymmetries and (ii) two types of subject/object asymmetries in the level of acquisition. Second, I verified whether these asymmetries are a general tendency for Japanese EFL learners, using Japanese college and university EFL learners. I found that the Japanese EFL learners showed (i) an argument/adjunct asymmetry and (ii) two types of subject/object asymmetries in the level of acquisition of the short distance wh-movement operation. Third, I focused on the wh-interrogative construction with long distance wh-movement, and investigated whether Japanese EFL learners would show the that-trace effect. I found that only advanced level learners showed this effect. Thus, for the advanced level learners, theEmpty Category Principle (ECP), which is assumed to be part of UG, is active in the acquisition of wh-interrogatives with long distance wh-movement. Fourth, I compared the result of the Japanese EFL learners with other Asian (Chinese, Korean, and Mongolian) EFL learners. These Asian EFL learners showed the same tendency as Japanese EFL learners. Thus, part of the UG principles is in operation for the advanced Asian EFL learners. Furthermore, I pointed out surprising that-trace effects by native speakers of English. There are three types of surprising that-trace effect: (i) the that-object trace effect, (ii) the that-adjunct trace effect, and (iii) the that-adverb-trace effect in English. Fifth, and finally, I focused on another type of wh-interrogatives, namely, multiple wh-interrogatives, and investigated whether Japanese EFL learners would show the superiority effect. I found that only advanced level learners showed this effect. Thus, for the advanced level learners, Attract-F, which is part of UG, is active in the acquisition of multiple wh-interrogatives. These results suggest that (i) Japanese EFL learners showed some asymmetries in their acquisition of the wh-movement operation, and (ii) part of the UG principles is active for the advanced Japanese EFL learners, while it is not for the beginner and the intermediate Japanese EFL learners. Given these facts, I conclude that L2 grammar regarding the wh-movement operation in English by Japanese EFL learners, is constrained not only by L1 knowledge, but also by UG. Therefore, the results of my dissertation support the Transfer Hypothesis rather than the No UG Access Hypothesis or the Full Access Hypothesis.
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• 受理日（W3CDTF）: 2016-08-04T09:59:51+09:00
• 作成日（W3CDTF）: 2016-09-16
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• 掲載誌（URI）: http://hdl.handle.net/10131/8600
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