Crosslinguistic Influences on the Acquisition of Discourse Level Constraints on the Comprehension and Use of Adversative Conjunctions.

Autor/in	McClure, Erica
Titel	Crosslinguistic Influences on the Acquisition of Discourse Level Constraints on the Comprehension and Use of Adversative Conjunctions.
Quelle	(1994), (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Conjunctions; Cross Cultural Studies; Discourse Analysis; English (Second Language); Grammar; Interlanguage; Language Patterns; Language Research; Linguistic Theory; Pragmatics; Second Language Learning; Second Languages; Spanish; Transfer of Training + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Diskursanalyse; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Grammatik; Zielsprache; Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur; Sprachforschung; Linguistische Theorie; Pragmalinguistik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Second language; Zweitsprache; Spanisch; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung
Abstract	Two studies investigated whether two conventions in the use of adversative conjunctions in English are acquired by native Spanish-speakers who are highly proficient in English. The two conventions are: (1) selection of "but" to introduce foreground information and (2) use of "although" to introduce background information. Subjects in the first study, conducted in Spanish, were 37 monolingual Spanish-speaking graduate students. Subjects in the second study were 42 native Spanish-speaking graduate students in the United States, all highly proficient in English. In each study, subjects completed two tasks. In the first, they were required to choose either "pero/"but" or "anque/although" to unite two propositions in a sentence. In the second, they read a sentence containing two propositions connected by one of these conjunctions and chose a continuation sentence that elaborated on one of the propositions. Results showed that there is a discourse rule of focus for the use of "pero and anque" in Spanish that parallels the English rule. However, as in English, this rule is not followed by all well-educated native Spanish-speakers. It was those Spanish speakers who follow the rule in Spanish that also follow it in English. Contains 21 references. (MSE)
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Update	2004/1/01