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研究生：	徐佩瑜 Pei-Yu Monica Hsu
論文名稱：	中文「老」字之第一語言習得研究 L1 Acquisition of ‘Lao’ in Mandarin Chinese
指導教授：	陳純音 Chen, Chun-Yin
學位類別：	碩士 Master
系所名稱：	英語學系 Department of English
論文出版年：	2013
畢業學年度：	101
語文別：	英文
論文頁數：	119
中文關鍵詞：	中文、第一語言習得、隱喻用語、生命效應
英文關鍵詞：	Mandarin Chinese, First language acquisition, Figurative expressions, Animacy
論文種類：	學術論文
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本研究旨在探討以中文為母語之兒童對中文「老」字的隱喻辭意理解，主要探討的議題包括標誌理論、語意透明度、生命效應、題型效應以及年齡因素。本研究包含兩個理解能力測驗：口頭詮釋測驗與選擇題測驗。研究對象包含實驗組的一百位兒童，依平均年齡七歲至十一歲分成五組，每組二十人，以及對照組的二十位成人。
研究結果顯示，字面意義比隱喻意義容易習得。其中，兒童對語意較模糊的隱喻用語有較多錯誤，兒童的理解能力隨著年齡增長而增加。「老」的生命效應除了與修飾的名詞搭配有關之外，亦與隱喻意義之辨識有關。在題型效應方面，兒童在選擇題測驗的表現比口頭詮釋測驗好，顯示兒童在辨識隱喻用語語意之能力優先於口頭詮釋。最後，年齡是習得隱喻用語的關鍵因素，七歲兒童仍在理解字面語意階段，八歲及九歲兒童雖能理解隱喻用語，但仍未達到成人能力的階段，十歲及十一歲兒童已能理解隱喻用語搭配無生命名詞；總言之，兒童對於「老」隱喻用語之習得能力隨著年齡增長而提升。

The present study focuses on the specific figurative expression lao which can be interpreted both literally and non-literally in Chinese. It aims to investigate Chinese-speaking children’s understanding of lao by examining five factors: the difficulty of metaphoricality, the degree of transparency, animacy effect, task effect, and age effect. Two comprehension tasks (i.e., interpretation and multiple-choice) were conducted and both of them were presented in a designed story scenario. The subjects were one hundred children in the elementary school in Taiwan, and they were further divided into five groups according to their ages (i.e., 7 year-olds to 11-year-olds). Also, twenty adults were recruited as the control group.
The results showed that the literal meaning of lao was found easier to comprehend than the non-literal meaning of lao. With regard to the degree of transparency in the non-literal meanings of lao, the opaque non-literal meaning was found to be challenging for all the children. Concerning the task effects, no matter which type of meanings of lao, the subjects performed significantly better on the Multiple-choice task than on the Interpretation task. Finally, the results indicates that children at age 7 could only comprehend the literal meaning of lao, but those 8 to 9-year-olds could comprehend the non-literal meanings of lao and lao with inanimate NPs in particular, although their performances were still not adult-like. Our 10 to 11-year-old subjects were found to be able to comprehend the non-literal meanings of lao with both animate and inanimate NPs.

CHINESE ABSTRACT........................................i
ENGLISH ABSTRACT........................................ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.........................................iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS.......................................v
LIST OF TABLES..........................................vii
LIST OF FIGURES.........................................viii

Chapter One  Introduction..................................1
    1.1 Motivation.....................................1
    1.2 Theoretical Framework..........................4
    1.3 Research Questions.............................6
    1.4 Significance of the Study......................6
    1.5 Organization of the Thesis.....................7

Chapter Two  Literature Review.............................9
    2.1 Theoretical Studies of Lao.....................9
        2.1.1 Ma (2002)............................9
        2.1.2 Liu (2007)..........................13
        2.1.3 Zuo (2009)..........................16
        2.1.4 Summary.............................18
    2.2 Empirical Studies of First Language Acquisition
              of Metaphorical Expression..................19
        2.2.1 Levorato and Cacciari (2002)........19
        2.2.2 Hsieh (2004)........................23
        2.2.3 Hsieh (2008)........................27
        2.2.4 Hsieh and Hsu (2010)................29
        2.2.5 Summary.............................32
    2.3 A New Classification of Lao...................34
        2.3.1 Lao with a Literal Meaning..........35
        2.3.2 Lao with a Non-literal Meaning......36
      2.3.2.1 Transparent Non-literal Meaning of Lao..37
      2.3.2.2 Opaque Non-literal Meaning of Lao.......39
    2.4 Summary of Chapter Two........................42


Chapter Three  Research Design............................43
    3.1 Subjects......................................43
    3.2 Materials and Methods.........................45
    3.3 Procedures....................................52
        3.3.1 Pilot Study.........................52
        3.3.2 Formal Study........................53
        3.3.3 Scoring.............................55
    3.4 Summary of Chapter Three......................55

Chapter Four  Results and Discussion......................57
    4.1 Acquisition of Literal and Non-literal Types..57
        4.1.1 A Comparison between Literal and
                        Non-literal Types.................57
        4.1.2 General Discussion..................59
    4.2 Acquisition of Transparent and Opaque Types...63
        4.2.1 A Comparison between Transparent
                        and Opaque Non-literal Meanings...64
        4.2.2 General Discussion..................66
    4.3 Acquisition of the Animacy Effect of Lao......70
        4.3.1 A Comparison between Animate and
                           Inanimate NPs Modified by Lao..70
        4.3.2 General Discussion..................73
    4.4 Task Effect...................................75
        4.4.1 Overall Findings....................76
        4.4.2 General Discussion..................81
    4.5 Age Effect....................................83
    4.6 Summary of Chapter Four.......................87

Chapter Five  Conclusion..................................89
    5.1 Summary of the Major Findings.................89
    5.2 Limitations of the Present Study and Suggestions
              for Further Research........................90

Bibliography..............................................93
Appendix A: Test Items Used in the Interpretation Task....99
Appendix B: Test Items Used in the Multiple-choice Task..107
Appendix C: Two Tasks Used in the Pilot Study............111
Appendix D: Results of the Pilot Study...................117
Appendix E: Consent Form.................................119

                                

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