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DOMINANT LANGUAGE INFLUENCE IN ACQUISITION AND ATTRITION OF
THE CHINESE REFLEXIVE ZIJI BY CHINESE-ENGLISH BILINGUALS
by
Chien-Hui Yu
________________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES)
May 2011
Copyright 2011 Chien-Hui Yu
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| Title | Dominant language influence in acquisition and attrition of the Chinese reflexive ziji By Chinese-English bilinguals |
| Author | Yu, Chien-Hui |
| Author email | chienhuy@usc.edu; chien.yu827@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | East Asian Languages & Cultures |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-29 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-04-12 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Li, Audrey |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hoji, Hajime Simpson, Andrew |
| Abstract | This study investigates how English, as the dominant language of Chinese heritage speakers, influences their minor language, Chinese, in the binding domain of the Chinese reflexive ziji. There are five different experimental groups: heritage learners, early bilinguals, late bilinguals, Chinese L2 learners and Chinese monolinguals. The Truth Value Judgment Task with stories (Crain and Thornton, 1998) is used to examine the structural differences in the binding domain between Chinese and English in this experiment.; According to my research and analyses, several experimental possibilities can be imagined regarding how the dominant language, English, influences in acquisition and attrition of the Chinese reflexive ziji. First, participants cannot access language-specific properties. Early bilinguals, heritage learners and Chinese L2 learners perform lower accuracy when the Chinese reflexive ziji stands outside the binding domain of English. This result corresponds to the conclusion made by Kim, Montrul, and Yoon (2005) in the experiment of binding interpretations between Korean heritage speakers and adult L2 learners of Korean.; Second, it is likely that L1 attrition does not exist among the experimental participants. Only Chinese L2 learners have a lower score in the test because they learn Chinese as a second language after the critical period. Third, L1 attrition seems to exist in this experiment. Heritage learners, early bilinguals and late bilinguals show low accuracy in the test. The possible factor is the operation of L1 attrition.; Based on the possibilities of this experiment, several issues need to be widely addressed in future researches. First, how does the dominant language influence learners to acquire the language-specific properties such as sub-commanding? Second, what role does the minority language play in the process of language-specific property acquisition? |
| Keyword | second language acquisition; language attrition; Chinese reflexive; ziji; logophoricity |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3737 |
| Rights | Yu, Chien-Hui |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-YU-4392 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-YU-4392.pdf |
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| Full text | DOMINANT LANGUAGE INFLUENCE IN ACQUISITION AND ATTRITION OF THE CHINESE REFLEXIVE ZIJI BY CHINESE-ENGLISH BILINGUALS by Chien-Hui Yu ________________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES) May 2011 Copyright 2011 Chien-Hui Yu |
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