by Ng, Shuk Han. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-168). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- An overview --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Previous research --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- "White and Trahey (White 1991, White & Trahey 1993, Trahey 1996)" --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Research on acquisition of Chinese as a second language --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3 --- Adverbial placement in English and Chinese and the learnability problems --- p.9 / Chapter 1.4 --- IL Problems predicted --- p.13 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- A descriptive account of adverbial placement in English and Chinese / Chapter 2.1 --- Adverbial placement in English --- p.20 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- The placement of the manner and D/F adverbials --- p.20 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Some exceptions to the general patterns --- p.23 / Chapter 2.2 --- Adverbial placement in Chinese --- p.24 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- The placement of the manner and D/F adverbials --- p.24 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Further discussion of Chinese adverbial placement --- p.29 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Definiteness effects in Chinese --- p.35 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Theoretical accounts for adverbial placement / Chapter 3.1 --- The accounts for English adverbial placement --- p.42 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- The placement of English AdvP adverbials --- p.42 / Chapter 3.1.1.1 --- Pollock (1989) --- p.43 / Chapter 3.1.1.2 --- Bowers (1993) --- p.45 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- The placement of English NP and PP adverbials --- p.51 / Chapter 3.2 --- The accounts for Chinese adverbial placement --- p.53 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- The placement of Chinese manner adverbials --- p.53 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- The placement of Chinese D/F adverbials --- p.60 / Chapter 3.2.2.1 --- Ernst (1996) --- p.60 / Chapter 3.2.2.2 --- Huang (1992) --- p.62 / Chapter 3.2.2.3 --- Tang (1990) --- p.66 / Chapter 3.3. --- Conclusion --- p.69 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- The experiment and the results / Chapter 4.1 --- The subjects --- p.71 / Chapter 4.2 --- The experiment --- p.72 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- The production task --- p.72 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- The grammaticality judgment task --- p.73 / Chapter 4.3 --- The procedures --- p.81 / Chapter 4.4 --- Overall results --- p.82 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- The production task --- p.82 / Chapter 4.4.1.1 --- The scoring procedure --- p.83 / Chapter 4.4.1.2 --- The results --- p.86 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- The grammaticality judgment task --- p.90 / Chapter 4.4.2.1 --- The scoring procedure --- p.90 / Chapter 4.4.2.2 --- The results --- p.92 / Chapter 4.4.2.2.1 --- The placement of manner adverbials --- p.93 / Chapter 4.4.2.2.2 --- The placement of D/F adverbials --- p.95 / Chapter 4.4.2.2.3 --- The placement of other adverbials --- p.104 / Chapter 4.4.2.2.4 --- The co-occurrence of manner and D/F adverbials --- p.108 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Individual learners' performance --- p.115 / Chapter 4.4.3.1 --- GP 1 learners --- p.115 / Chapter 4.4.3.2 --- GP 2 learners --- p.119 / Chapter 4.5 --- Possible shortcomings of the experiment --- p.121 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Discussion and conclusion / Chapter 5 .1. --- The hypotheses --- p.123 / Chapter 5 .2. --- Some important issues --- p.125 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Little evidence of transfer --- p.126 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- VMO --- p.128 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- MDFVO and DFMVO --- p.129 / Chapter 5.2.4 --- Overgeneralization --- p.129 / Chapter 5.2.5 --- Lack of awareness of different placement patterns for different adverbials by GP 1 --- p.131 / Chapter 5.2.6 --- Inconsistency in judgments --- p.133 / Chapter 5.2.7 --- Why was adverbial placement learnable? --- p.134 / Chapter 5.3 --- The developmental stages of acquiring Chinese adverbial placement --- p.137 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- The unlearning of postverbal manner adverbials --- p.137 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Optionality of verb raising and adverbial adjunction pattern --- p.143 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- Adjunction order of manner and D/F adverbials --- p.150 / Chapter 5.3.4 --- Why is adverbial placement learnable? --- p.152 / Chapter 5.3.5 --- Competence and performance --- p.156 / Chapter 5.4 --- Conclusion --- p.157 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- The findings --- p.157 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- The questions for future research --- p.158 / Bibliography --- p.162 / Appendix A --- p.169 / Appendix B --- p.172
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_322263 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Contributors | Ng, Shuk Han., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of English. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, ix, 176 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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