@article{oai:juen.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004782, author = {大場, 浩正 and Ohba, Hiromasa}, issue = {1}, journal = {上越教育大学研究紀要}, month = {Sep}, note = {本稿の目的は,第二言語学習者における英語の関係節構文とwh疑問構文の表層的な形態的特徴の発達過程を明らかにすることである。英語と日本語における関係節構文とwh疑問構文の形態的な相違は大きく,それらは成人日本人英語学習者にとって学習が困難な文法構造に挙げられる。この相違を克服し,どの英語能力レベルに達した段階において英語母語話者と同様の理解を示すのかを調査するために,総合的な英語能力がElementaryレベルからAdvancedレベルの成人日本人英語学習者293名および英語母語話者15名に文法性判断タスクを課した。結果として,総合的な英語能力が上がるにつれて正確な判断が出来るようになり,関係節構文においてはHighintermediateレベルに,また,Wh疑問構文においてはAdvancedレベルに達した時点で英語母語話者と同様の理解を示した。この結果はVainikkaand Young-Scholten(1994,1996a,1996b,1998a,1998b,2002)が提唱した,第二言語の文法構築過程は第一言語と同様に語彙範疇から機能範噂へと徐々に進んで行くというMinimal Trees仮説を支持するものであった。, The purpose of this study is to investigate the developmental process of the surface morphological properties of English relative clauses and wh-questions by adult second language (L2) learners. The differences in the structures of relative clauses and wh-questions between English and Japanese are great. Thus, these two grammatical structures in English are considered difficult to learn for adult Japanese native speakers. In order to examine at which level of English proficiency they can overcome these difficulties and show the same understanding as English native speakers, a grammaticality judgement task was administered to 293 adult Japanese learners of English with elementary to advanced proficiency and 15 native speakers of English. As a result, there was a proficiency-related increase in possible correct judgement, and adult Japanese learners of English showed the same understanding of relative clauses as native speakers when they reached the high-intermediate level and also of wh-questions when they arrived at the advanced level. These results support the Minimal Trees Hypothesis, advocated by Vainikka and Young-Scholten (1994, 1996a, 1996b, 1998a, 1998b, 2002), which proposes that, like L1 learners, adult L2 learners gradually build up syntactic structure from lexical to functional projections.}, pages = {167--181}, title = {日本人英語学習者における関係節とwh疑問の形態的特徴の発達過程}, volume = {23}, year = {2003}, yomi = {オオバ, ヒロマサ} }