The Use of Preferred Argument Structure by Chinese and American Monolinguals in Oral Narratives

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10.2991/assehr.k.201127.084How to use a DOI?

Keywords

preferred arguemnt structure, Chinese monolinguals, English monolinguals

Abstract

This article presents the use of preferred argument structure by 12 Chinese and 12 American monolinguals in the oral narrative task. Obvious unique linguistic features employed by each group have been figured out. For example, Chinese subjects used more transitive clauses; Chinese would put more lexical/ new referents on the object position. The distinct performance of these two groups indicates there would be potential native language transfer effect in their production of preferred argument structure in the second language.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiangyu Jiang
AU  - Min Zhang
AU  - Xin Wang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - The Use of Preferred Argument Structure by Chinese and American Monolinguals in Oral Narratives
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 421
EP  - 427
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201127.084
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.084
ID  - Jiang2020
ER  -