英文摘要 |
The present paper analyzes the errors of determiner elements made by English and French learners of Mandarin, with a special focus on bare nouns, a/an+ (classifier)+N and the phenomenon of zero pronouns. According to the Nominal Mapping Parameter proposed by Chierchia (1998), Mandarin, English and French belong to different typological groups, and English is more similar to Mandarin compared with French in that both of them have bare nouns. The question arises as to whether English learners of Mandarin have advantage over French learners when it comes to the acquisition of bare nouns. Adopting a contrastive analysis perspective, we shall examine the influence of native language on the acquisition of determiner elements in Mandarin, and will further investigate the relationship between topic continuity and error types. |