關係子句的獲得：以華人學習義大利文作為第二語文為例

The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Evidence from Italian as Second Language Learned by Chinese People

以漢人學習義大利文作為第二語言的資料來看，關係子句的學習的確困難、因此較少使用是一個事實。此事實啟示，學習者總是盡量避免使用目標語文（義大利文）最具產出性的語文結構。為了確認此「避免使用關係子句」的看法，作者觀察漢人在非得使用關係子句不可的語境下，他們使用關係子句的能力，並且分析其資料。

The fact that in the corpora of Chinese learners of Italian as a Second Language, Rel(ative) Cl(ause)s are rare and problematic in nature, gives reason to think that the learners might try to avoid a syntactic structure that is extremely productive in the target language - Italian - both for number of occurrences and for functions. To verify the hypothesis of "avoidance" of RelCIs, I investigated the ability of Chinese learners to produce RelCIs within syntactic contexts of L2 Italian that obligatorily require the presence of a RelCI. In order to do that, I stimulated the elicitation of RelCIs in L2 Italian through a questionnaire that I designed for this specific purpose. Data of that questionnaire are here analyzed and discussed.