文档介绍：华中科技大学
硕士学位论文
基于语料库的中国英语学习者和本族语者的语义韵对比研究--
以“HAPPEN,MEET,CAREER,QUITE”为例
姓名:桂传念
申请学位级别:硕士
专业:外国语言学及应用语言学
指导教师:周江林
2010-05
华中科技大学硕士学位论文
摘要
自从 Sinclair 提出语义韵的概念以来,语义韵得到中外专家学者的广泛关
注。如果一个非本族语者对语义韵把握不够,就会产生一些不地道,不自然的搭
配,所以对语义韵的研究意义重大。
本文正是基于这种背景,采用基于语料库的,定性和定量数据相结合的研
究方法,对 HAPPEN, MEET, CAREER, QUITE 四个词的语义韵律进行了分析研
究。本文所选的学习者语料出自中国学习者语料库 CLEC, 其中包括了中学生,
大学英语专业和非英语专业学生的笔语语料。该研究中的参照语料选自 BNC 的子
库。该研究首先调查四个词语在两个语料库中的语义特征,并比较了英语学习者
和本族语者的语义韵分布情况,然后通过设定最小共现频率和计算 MI 值,获得
显著搭配词来分析两者在搭配行为上体现的异同。研究结果表明,中国英语学习
者基本掌握了这四个节点词的语义韵特征,但是在更深层次上的搭配行为,和本
族语者还存在这样那样的差异。
在论文的最后,对造成这种现象的原因进行了分析,并且提出了一些对改
进英语教学有帮助的意见和建议。

关键词: 语料库对比研究语义韵搭配

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Abstract
Semantic prosody has attracted worldwide attention since it is first proposed by
Sinclair. The research of semantic prosody is of great significant in that lack of
semantic prosodic features would result in inappropriate collocations, which are not
native or natural.
This corpus-based study adopts both quantitative and qualitative approach to
analysis of semantic prosody data. This thesis focuses on four lexical items, HAPPEN,
MEET, CAREER, QUITE. The data is extracted respectively from parative
corpora, the native speaker corpus, British National Corpus (BNC) and the Chinese
Learner English Corpus (CLEC). This survey is supposed pare the semantic
prosodies of the four node words between the Chinese English learners and the native
speakers, first, the minimum frequency and MI score are specified, and the significant
collocates puted by the aid of an Excel program, and further the similarities
and differences of collocation pattern of them are explored. The results show that
Chinese English learners show similar semantic prosody as the native speakers on the
use of the four node words, but they differ in the deep-level collocation patterns.
In the end, the underlying reasons for the differences are explored and some
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