英語心理動詞の習得上の問題点

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The main purpose of this study was to examine learners' states of acquisition of a specific grammatical item: psych(ological) verbs. Psych verbs are very difficult for learners of English to acquire and errors associated with them have beenreported. However, until recently, littleresearchhas beendone (ex. Chen 1997, Montrul 1998, White et al. 1998). The results obtained from previous studies are consistent in that learners have little difficulty with non-causative psych verbs and it is causative psych verbs that cause problems for learners. In this study, we did an experiment to test whether the same tendency would be observed among Japanese learners of English. The subjects in this study were 50 .Japanese university students and 10 native speakers of English. Two tests were given to them: sentence completion test and grammaticality judgement test. The overall results showed that causative psych verbs were more problematic for the subjects. As far as sentence patterns and lexical items used in the experiment were concerned, the subjects had a difficulty with sentence patterns in which Theme appeared as the subject and a lexical item "fear".
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