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Itinéraires acquisitionnels de la temporalité en chinois L2

La Variété de Base dans une langue non-flexionnelle

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Article language: French

Résumé
Cette étude porte sur le parcours acquisitionnel de la temporalité chez les apprenants adultes francophones du chinois L2. Nous visons à identifier les traits évolutifs dans l’acquisition de la temporalité en chinois L2, et à déterminer si les apprenants débutants de cette langue présentent des tendances similaires à celles attestées dans le projet ESF (cf. « Variété de Base », Klein, W., & Perdue, C. (1997). The Basic Variety (or : Couldn’t natural languages be much simpler?). Second Language Research, 13(4), 301–347. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar), bien que le chinois ne dispose pas de morphologie verbale flexionnelle et présente des moyens grammaticalisés uniquement dans le domaine de l’aspect. L’analyse se fonde sur un corpus de narrations orales sollicitées à partir de supports visuels. Nos résultats mettent en évidence l’usage évolutif des structures avec des verbes composés résultatifs marquant l’aspect perfectif, ainsi que la préférence initiale pour les marqueurs perfectifs chez les débutants, par rapport aux marqueurs imperfectifs.
Abstract
This study examines the developmental trajectory of temporality among adult French-speaking learners of L2 Chinese. Our aim is to identify developmental features in the acquisition of temporality in L2 Chinese and to determine whether beginning learners display tendencies similar to those documented in the ESF project (cf. Basic Variety, Klein, W., & Perdue, C. (1997). The Basic Variety (or : Couldn’t natural languages be much simpler?). Second Language Research, 13(4), 301–347. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar), despite the fact that Chinese lacks inflectional verbal morphology and relies on grammaticalized means exclusively in the domain of aspect. The analysis is based on a corpus of oral narratives elicited through visual prompts. Our results highlight the developmental use of resultative verb compounds (RVCs) marking perfective aspect, as well as beginners’ initial preference for perfective markers over imperfective ones.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Encodage de la temporalité en français et en chinois
    • 2.1Moyens grammaticaux
    • 2.2Moyens lexicaux
  • 3.Recherches antérieures sur l’acquisition de la temporalité en L2
  • 4.Questions de recherche et méthodologie
    • 4.1Questions de recherche
    • 4.2Informateurs
    • 4.3Supports et recueil de données
    • 4.4Procédure d’analyses des résultats
  • 5.Résultats
    • 5.1Longueur et taux de marquage des récits
    • 5.2Moyens grammaticaux chez les locuteurs natifs et en chinois L2
      • VCR
      • LE
      • VCR+LE
      • ZHE
      • ZAI et réduplication verbale
    • 5.3Moyens lexicaux chez les locuteurs natifs et en chinois L2
    • 5.4Densité du marquage
  • 6.Discussion
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Author queries
  • References
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