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This article investigates Bley-Vroman & Houng's (1988) assertion that frequency of a linguistic item in L1 can lead directly to that in L2,proposed as an alternative explanation of why Chinese and Japanese avoid relative clauses (RCs) in English. They collected data by counting RCs in The Great Gatsby and its Chinese translation. This study reviews their study and compares a Japanese text and its English translation. The result shows (1) that Bley-Vroman & Houng's study contained a methodological error, (2) that their claim about transfer of frequency was untenable, (3) that there was a distributional difference in RCs between the two languages, and (4) that the frequency order of the 4 RC types obtained was related to the Accessibility Hierarchy by Keenan & Comrie (1977). Implications are discussed in relation to the avoidance theory by Schachter (1974).
福岡国際大学・福岡女子短期大学の論文
1992-06-30