Recent years have seen a heightened interest in the interface between language use and cognition in language learners. In this study, we investigate this interface further by conducting a rating task experiment on the intuitions of 25 native speakers and 101 low–intermediate to advanced learners of English as a Foreign Language regarding the acceptability of the genitive variants (the beauty of nature/nature’s beauty) in different contexts. These ratings were then compared against existing corpus-based statistical models that predict which variant is most likely in spoken language use with two mixed-effects linear regression models. The first model focused on the animacy of the possessor in particular, which has been found to have a different effect on native speakers and EFL learners in language use, whereas the second model tested how the ratings relate to the predictions as a whole. Results show that there is a larger discrepancy between language use and intuitions of low-proficiency learners compared to native speakers, which is partially because animate, collective, and inanimate possessors affect the intuitions and the language use of learners differently.

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英语属格交替中的动画效应：将母语人士和英语学习者的判断与语料库数据进行比较

近年来，人们对语言学习者的语言使用和认知之间的界面越来越感兴趣。在这项研究中，我们通过对 25 名母语人士和 101 名中低级到高级英语作为外语学习者的直觉进行评级任务实验，进一步研究了这个界面，了解所有格变体的可接受性（自然之美/自然之美）在不同的上下文中。然后将这些评级与现有的基于语料库的统计模型进行比较，该模型通过两个混合效应线性回归模型预测口语使用中最有可能出现的变体。第一个模型特别关注拥有者的活力，人们发现它对母语者和英语学习者的语言使用有不同的影响，而第二个模型则测试了评级与整体预测的关系。结果表明，与母语者相比，低水平学习者的语言使用和直觉之间存在更大的差异，部分原因是有生命的、集体的和无生命的拥有者对学习者的直觉和语言使用的影响不同。