大多數台灣英語學習者在進入大學前已經習得相當數量的英文字彙，即便如此，他們仍然會誤用常見的搭配詞 (例如: [do/make+noun])。本論文藉用兩種語料庫 (分別為台灣英語學習者語料庫及英國國家語料庫)來分析、觀察[do+noun]和[make+noun]的異同以及英語母語人士及台灣英語學習者使用[do/make+noun]狀況。結果顯示台灣英語學習者和英語母語人士最大的不同在[make+noun]：就語意層面而言，最常被英語母語人士使用的[make+noun]為 ‘to perform, to carry out’ (例如: make a speech, make a fine judge, etc.) 而台灣英語學習者偏好 ‘to create’ (例如: make a sushi, make a robot, etc.)；就名詞特性而言，母語人士偏向使用抽象的名詞 (例如: comment, progress, etc.) 而學習者習慣使用具體的名詞 (例如: robot, sushi, etc.)。除了語料庫語料分析，本論文還透過心理語言學實驗測驗 (即圖片引述實驗－受試者描述他們不熟悉的動作) 觀察母語人士和學習者使用常見的搭配詞－[do/make+noun]－的差異。台灣英語學習者使用為數不少廣義的[do+noun] (例如：do exercise 或 do sports) 而英語母語人士傾向使用帶有具體意義的動詞 (例如:sit-up) 或搭配詞 (例如: do sit-up)。幾乎沒有母語人士使用[make+noun]而大多數學習者使用的是[make+noun]－當make做為causative的用法。根據此實驗分析，本論文提出一個模型來探討英語母語人士和英語學習者對[do/make+noun]的使用異同。 / Learners of English in Taiwan are estimated to reach a certain command of vocabulary size before they enter colleges. However, they still differ from native speakers in producing the commonly-used patterns, such as [do/make+noun]. In order to observe the similarities and differences of [do+noun] and [make+noun], as well as their uses by EFL learners, this paper inspects their senses using two types of corpus data, namely a Taiwan-based learner corpus and the British National Corpus. The results show that learners differ from native speakers mainly in their use of [make+noun]. For example, the most frequent sense used by native speakers is ‘to perform, to carry out,’ as in make a speech, make a fine judge, etc., whereas that used by Taiwanese learners is ‘to create’ as in make a sushi, make a robot, etc. With respect to the characteristic of the noun following make, native speakers tend to choose abstract nouns, such as comment, progress, etc., whereas learners prefer concrete nouns, such as robot, sushi, etc. A psycholinguistic experiment is also included in order to see whether learners use language with general meanings, such as [do/make+noun], more in describing situations unfamiliar to them. Results show that [do+noun] patterns with a more general meaning (e.g., do exercise or do sports) are more often used by the learners in our experiment while native speakers prefer language with a more precise meaning (e.g., sit-up or do sit-up). Few [make+noun] constructions are found in native speakers’ language whereas learners produce numerous [make+noun] constructions, mostly the causative uses of make.

Les unités phraséologiques représentent actuellement un objet d’étude commun à de nombreuses disciplines en science du langage. C’est dans ce cadre que s’inscrivent les travaux exposés dans la présente thèse. Adoptant une optique pluridisciplinaire alliant linguistique et psycholinguistique et impliquant l’approche comparative interlangue, nous étudions un phénomène linguistique complexe, le figement, en français et arabe dialectal tunisien. Nous proposons, en premier lieu, une description des expressions figées dans les deux langues mises en contraste, en repérant la typologie et le fonctionnement morphosyntaxique, lexical et sémantique de ces séquences. Notre attention se porte essentiellement sur les deux notions importantes dans l’étude du figement: la scalarité et l’iconicité. La méthodologie et les résultats d’une étude psycholinguistique et expérimentale réalisée auprès d’adultes francophones natifs et non natifs (des arabophones tunisiens apprenant le français L2) sont, en second lieu, exposés. L’intérêt est de déterminer si les facteurs linguistiques, degré de figement et iconicité, facilitent le traitement du langage figé au cours d’une tâche de mémorisation impliquant l’encodage et la reconnaissance des séquences figées du français. Une troisième expérience consiste en un test de familiarité qui examine l’effet des facteurs linguistiques, la scalarité et l’iconicité, ainsi que personnels, l’âge et le sexe, sur la connaissance des expressions figées du dialectal tunisien par des locuteurs arabophones natifs. Ces recherches psycholinguistiques, portant sur une population d’adultes, sont suivies d’une étude exploratoire sur l’émergence des expressions figées ou semi-figées chez les enfants. Ce travail suit la double problématique de l’émergence et de la comparaison interlangue. Nous comparons les productions de deux enfants: un enfant arabe tunisien et un enfant français. / The phraseological units currently represent a common object of study in many disciplines in language science. It is in this context that we present our work in this thesis. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach combining linguistic and psycholinguistic involving comparative cross-language approach, our goal is to study a complex linguistic phenomenon, the fixation, in French and Tunisian Arabic dialect. We propose, first, to contrast the fixed expressions in both languages by identifying the type and the morphosyntactic, lexical and semantic operation of these sequences. Our interest will focus on two important concepts in the study of the fixed sequences: scalarity and iconicity. The methodology and results of a psycholinguistic and experimental study among native and non-native francophone adults (Tunisian Arabic speakers learning French as second language) will be then exposed. Our aim is to determine whether language factors, scalarity and iconicity, facilitate the processing of fixed expressions during a memorization task involving the encoding and recognition of French frozen sequences. A third experiment is a test of familiarity that examines the effect of linguistic factors, scalarity and iconicity as well as personal factors such as; age and sex, on the knowledge of Tunisian dialect frozen sequences by Arabic native speakers. This psycholinguistic work carried on an adult population is followed by an exploratory study on the emergence of fixed and semi-fixed expressions in children communication. This work follows the dual problem of emergence and cross-language comparison. We compare the productions of two children: a Tunisian Arab child and a French child.

The submitted M.A. thesis builds on the B.A. thesis entitled On general questions of psycholinguistics and develops factual points of departure related to the topic of adoption of a foreign language by a child. A part of the theoretical section is the definition of basic concepts in the field of psycholinguistics, in particular developmental psycholinguistics, and the design of the notion of adoption of a foreign language by a child. The primary goal of the study is to provide a comparative listing of the individual theories of adoption of a foreign language by a child, not only at the level of the mother tongue, but at the level of a second language as well. The basic theoretical concepts of adoption of a foreign language are based on linguistic, psychological and especially psycholinguistic scientific research. The other goals of the thesis include the definition of extensive variable determinants which participate in the process of adoption of a foreign language by a child and also influence the resultant level of adoption of a non-native language. In the concluding part of the theoretical compilation, space is provided for the psycholinguistic aspects of adoption, such as enunciative, speech and written displays of a foreign language. The empirical part is built up in a way so that it highlights the applicability of the process of adoption of a foreign language by a child in a natural environment, i.e. in a bilingual family environment where the resultant process is the most effective and verifiable. For this reason, it is not possible to talk about learning a foreign language but rather about the adoption of a second language.

[pt] Esta tese investiga a aquisição de pessoa, como traço formal do português brasileiro, por crianças com desenvolvimento lingüístico normal e comprometido. A hipótese de trabalho é a de que a criança, diante do input de sua língua, proceda à delimitação de elementos de categorias funcionais e lexicais encontrados no fluxo da fala, identificando a expressão morfológica de pessoa na categoria funcional D e no afixo flexional do verbo (classes fechadas, delimitadas na interface fônica) e que o locus da interpretabilidade do traço pessoa na interface semântica constitui um problema na aquisição do PB. A tese fundamenta-se nos pressupostos do Programa Minimalista (Chomsky, 1995) e numa proposta teórica que visa a uma articulação entre teoria lingüística e psicolingüística no tratamento da Aquisição da Linguagem e do Déficit Específico da Linguagem (DEL) (Corrêa, 2002; 2006). A operação computacional de concordância sujeito-verbo necessária para a valoração de pessoa em T é considerada no contexto da produção e da compreensão. A expressão morfofonológica do traço de pessoa é analisada em dados de fala espontânea de duas crianças de 18 a 30 meses. 5 experimentos são relatados, nos quais se busca verificar a compreensão da informação referente a pessoa por crianças sem queixas de linguagem, de 3 e de 5 anos de idade, de duas classes sociais (131, no total) e por duas crianças diagnosticadas como portadoras de DEL. Os resultados sinalizam que crianças por volta dos 20 meses já expressam 1a e 3a pessoa do discurso por meio de formas de 1a e 3a pessoa gramatical tanto no DP sujeito (Dmax) quanto no verbo, ainda que apenas por volta de 24 meses haja evidência da expressão morfológica da concordância sujeito-verbo e 1a pessoa do discurso e 1a pessoa gramatical se identifiquem. O estabelecimento da referência com base exclusiva na compreensão de informação gramatical relativa a pessoa apresenta dificuldades para crianças de idade inferior a 5 anos. Crianças DEL de idade superior a 5 anos apresentam dificuldades na compreensão de informação relativa à 3a pessoa e no processamento de informação relativa a pessoa associada a número plural. / [en] This thesis is concerned the acquisition of person, as a formal feature of Brazilain Portuguese (BP), by normally developing and language- impaired (SLI) children. The working hypothesis is that children initially identify grammatical information concerning person in the closed classes delimited at the phonetic interface and that the locus of the interpretability of this formal feature at the semantic interface constitutes a difficulty children face in the acquisition of BP. The theoretical framework is the Minimalist Program (Chomsky, 1995), in the context of a psycholinguistic approach to language acquisition (Corrêa, 2002; 2006). The computation of Agree in the valuation of the person feature in T is considered both in the production and in the comprehension of linguistic utterances. The morphophonological expression of person is analyzed in the longitudinal data of the spontaneous speech of two Brazilian children (18 to 30 month old). Five comprehension experiments are reported, which aimed at investigating how person information is processed by 3 and 5 year olds (total= 131), from two social groups, as well as by two SLI children. The results suggest that the morphophonological expression of person both in D and in the verbal affix is present in children´s early production though morphological evidence of subject-verb agreement can be detected only by the age of 24 months.. The establishing of reference exclusively on the basis of the morphological expression of person presents difficulties for the normally developing children under five. SLI children older than five have particular difficulty in the comprehension of the third person and in the processing of both person and plural number information.

Le but de ce travail de thèse, qui fait partie du projet ANR ReFlex (n° NT 05-2_41686 Renforcer la flexibilité lexicale et syntaxique dans l’expression orale et écrite des adolescents), est l’étude des capacités linguistiques d’enfants et d’adolescents appartenant à une CSP défavorisée et scolarisés en ZEP dans la région de Lyon. Partant du constat que l’adolescence était une période clef du développement de l’expression orale et écrite en situation monologique (Berman, 2006), nous étudions les productions de trois groupes d’enfants monolingues français (scolarisés en CM2 (âge moyen : 10;9), 5ème (âge moyen : 12;7) et 3ème (âge moyen : 15;2)). Les textes ont été produits dans divers contextes de production : à l’oral et à l’écrit, en exposition et en narration. Nous étudions alors le passage de l’enfant du statut de « native speaker » à celui de « proficient speaker » (Berman, 2004:9, 2008:2). L’enfant, après avoir acquis des unités et des règles linguistiques, doit apprendre lors de l’encodage d’un message à s’adapter aux différents contextes communicationnels, etc. : il doit devenir flexible. Des analyses off line ont été effectuées, et mon travail de thèse se concentre essentiellement sur une thématique spécifique : les syntagmes nominaux dans une perspective syntaxique, développementale et discursive. Notre analyse des syntagmes nominaux est fortement inspirée par l’hypothèse de la Preferred Argument Structure (Du Bois 1987) et examine la cohésion référentielle de textes produits dans différents contextes (oral/écrit ; narratif/expositif). Notre but est ainsi de démontrer : (1) que les choix syntaxiques sont gouvernés par les contraintes communicationnelles et (2) que ces contraintes communicationnelles varient selon la modalité de production (oral ou écrite). / The main aim of this research, which is apart of a large project (the ANR project : ReFlex project, n° NT 05-2_41686 Renforcer la flexibilité lexicale et syntaxique dans l’expression orale et écrite des adolescents), is the study of linguistic capacities in lower-class children attending an educational priority school in the suburbs of Lyon. Much development in the ability to produce a monologue text occurs during childhood and adolescence (Berman, 2006). For this reason, I have studied the productions of three groups of French monolingual children (mean age: 10;9 (CM2), 12;7 (5ème) and 15;2 (3ème)). Each participant produced two text types (expository/narrative) in two modalities (written/spoken). The primary focus is on how children grow from “native speaker” to “proficient speaker” (Berman, 2004:9, 2008:2). After having acquired linguistic forms and rules children must learn to adapt their verbal message to the different communicational contexts, etc.: this requires that children become expressively flexible. Off line analyses were conducted, and my PhD thesis tackles a specific theme: noun phrases in a syntactic, developmental and discursive perspective. Our analysis of noun phrases is inspired by the hypothesis of Preferred Argument Structure (Du Bois 1987) and examines referential cohesion in texts produced in different contexts (spoken/written, expository text/narrative text). Our aim is to demonstrate: (1) that language production is governed by communicative constraints; and (2) that those communicative constraints differ for written and spoken production.

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The importance of extensive literature reading in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context has been given increasing attention in recent research. Literature reading is also a required part of the national syllabi of the (EFL) courses offered to both adolescents and adults at Upper Secondary level in Sweden. This thesis aims to investigate the teachers’ process of making literature choices for extensive reading in upper secondary EFL courses in Sweden. Eight teachers of three different student groups took part in the study, representing adolescent university preparatory programs and vocational programs, as well as programs for adult students. Questionnaires were used and the data was analyzed for patterns revealing three main factors affecting teachers’ literature choice: language proficiency, reading experience and contextual factors. These three factors were fitted into the theoretical framework of psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic reading models, with the addition of a perspective of motivational research. The results of this survey underline the importance of extensive reading, according to teachers, and that motivation for literature choice can be primarily related to factors associated with psycholinguistic reading models. The survey also points to the need for further investigating of teachers’ own experiences of literature reading, searching for deeper motivational factors which influence teaching choices. Another future field of research is the choice of reading activities assigned together with the chosen literature, which probably also influence teachers’ choices in the Swedish EFL classroom.

Eva Richterová - Early reading skills development in children with specific language impairment This study investigated the development of early reading skills in children with specific language impairment within a psycholinguistic framework. The investigation is based on theories concerning linguistic and cognitive skills which play a crucial role in the development of reading skills. This approach is utilized to identify groups which are at risk of difficulties in literacy acquisition as a result of language impairment. Theoretical background of reading development in children with SLI is presented, in addition to current knowledge about the relationship between language and reading skills. Studies on SLI highlight the need of longitudinal investigations, which enable better understanding of the relationship between literacy development and preliteracy skills. The aim of the study was to provide a systematic description of the reading skills development in children with SLI from first to fourth Grade. A group of 25 children with SLI was repeatedly investigated in terms of their reading skills (decoding and reading comprehension) and preliteracy skills. Assessment of language and cognitive skills was also carried out and involved phonological awareness, rapid authomatised naming, and letter...

This work deals with possible interferences in gender conceptualization of inanimate objects in bilingual speakers of Hungarian and Slovakian language. It closely pursues the grammatical category of gender (which is present in one of the examined languages, in Slovakian, and absent in the other one - Hungarian). The aim of the performed experiment, in which two groups of speakers participated (one was the previously mentioned group of bilingual speakers of Hungarian and Slovakian, and the second one was a control group of Hungarian monolingual speakers) was to verify if the presence of grammatical gender in one of the two languages, spoken by the bilingual group of speakers, will affect their conceptualization of gender of the inanimate referents. Another aspiration was to find out if bilingual speakers, as well as the monolingual speakers of Hungarian had accordant responses to some of the inanimate objects, and also if there was a congruence in the responses between the two participating groups of speakers. A secondary aim of this experiment was to examine a phenomenon, which appeared in the previous conducted research (Červenková, 2017), which was the effort of the respondents to make the first phoneme of their response identical with the first phoneme of the name of particular object in...

Национальный менталитет выражается в языке, в частности, через ключевые слова, одно из которых надежда. Данные толковых словарей русского и китайского языков позволяют представить лексикографическое описание лексемы надежда, сравнить их значения в разных языках. Проведенный психолингвистический эксперимент среди русских и китайских респондентов позволил выявить лексические значения, существующие в реальном употреблении. Если для русских респондентов надежда – это ожидание, мечта и женское имя, то для китайских респондентов надежда – это успех, мотивация. / National mentality is expressed in language, in particular, through keywords, one of which is hope. The data of the explanatory dictionaries of the Russian and Chinese languages allow us to present a lexicographical description of the lexeme hope, to compare their meanings in different languages. A psycholinguistic experiment conducted among Russian and Chinese respondents revealed lexical meanings that exist in actual use. If for Russian respondents hope is an expectation, a dream and a female name, then for Chinese respondents hope is a success, motivation.