Acquisition of Relative Clauses
Acquisition of Zero Relative Clauses in English by Adult Turkish Learners of English
... on acquisition of relative clauses by first and second language learners have evoked considerable interest in recent ...zero relative clause ...zero relative clauses, whereas ...
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Textbooks for teaching and learning a foreign English language: Do they really facilitate students’ acquisition of English relative clauses?
... students’ acquisition of English relative ...RC acquisition, thirty textbooks were ...the acquisition of relative clauses in second ...sequence relative clauses ...
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The Role of L1 Transfer in the Acquisition of English Relative Clauses by Iranian EFL Learners: A Case of Resumptive Pronouns in Persian
... the acquisition of the uninterpretable feature of resumptive pronouns by Persian foreign language learners of ...language acquisition after the critical ...different relative clauses ...
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Acquisition of English Relative Clauses by Adult Persian Learners: Focus on Resumptive Pronouns
... Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulou (2007) observed that uninterpretable features are unavailable in second language acquisition after the critical period. In this paper, we verify this claim by providing evidence from ...
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The effect of Code switching on the Acquisition of Object Relative Clauses by Iranian EFL Learners
... Abstract. This study attempted to investigate the impact of teacher’s code-switching on the acquisition of a problematic grammatical struc- ture, namely, object relative clauses, by intermediate EFL ...
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The acquisition of German relative clauses: A case study
... Leo’s relative clauses is parallel to the development of relative clauses in ...early relative clauses function semantically like simple main clauses ; but the source ...
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Acquisition of English Relative Clauses by Persian EFL Learners
... the relative pronoun within the RC and bases the order of difficulty on the notion of processing discontinuity which is created by the interruption of the main clause by the RC, ...the relative pronoun and ...
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Learning of relative clauses by L3 learners of English
... Yet, according to the 75% criterion (Neeleman & Weerman, as cited in Falk & Bardel, 2011), the participants had not reached high proficiency levels; i.e., structures such as relative clauses cannot ...
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Relative clauses and conjunctive adjuncts in Syrian University student writing in English
... the relative clause in the middle of the sentence ...interrupting relative clause at the center of sentence, and instead, have the relative clause on the right side of the main clause, ...of ...
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Effects of Form-Focused Instruction on the Learning of Relative Clauses
... 204 The overall performance of FonM participants could also be related to the types of cognitive process that they were involved in during the treatment sessions. Izumi and Izumi (2004 as cited in Yabuki-Soh, 2007) who ...
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(Pseudo-)Relatives and prepositional infinitival constructions in the acquisition of European Portuguese
... in acquisition due to processing constraints for which there is no evidence for crosslinguistic ...Small Clauses) and interpretively (because they do not require the representation of a contextually ...
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Priming the comprehension of German object relative clauses
... of acquisition and processing in East-Asian languages, such as Chinese and Japanese, where the subject-object asymmetry is often neutralized or reversed ...
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Impact of explicit instruction on EFL learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge: A case of English relative clauses
... language acquisition can be speeded by explicit instruction, and without some form of consciousness raising or noticing, formal accuracy cannot be attained or may be picked up very slowly (Sharwood Smith, 1981; ...
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Movement and feature-checking in Korean: Relative clauses, topicalization, and case-marking
... However, Kayne (1994) notes that some syntactic differences between RRCs and NRCs do not justify the assumption of two completely unrelated structures. Kayne (1994) furthermore shows that there is no need for ...
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Identifying Syntactic Role of Antecedent in Korean Relative Clause using Corpus and Thesaurus Informationes
... While determining syntactic relation for antecedents of relative clauses, the system checks the argument structure of the verb in a relative clause first, and then records the empty or o[r] ...
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Phasal Syntax = Cyclic Phonology?
... the relative clause, is optimal as it satisfies the highest-ranked constraints: the right edge of every phase (νP or CP) is aligned with an Intonation Phrase, and the right edge of every Intonation Phrase is ...
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Relative Performance Concerns, Attention Allocation and Complementarities in Information Acquisition
... of relative performance concerns by extending the mod- el developed by Van Nieuwerburgh and Veldkamp ...the relative performance contract as given, in which an institutional investor’s marginal utility of ...
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A Study of kiluguru Syntax with Special Reference to the Transformational History of Sentences with Permuted Subject and Object
... Adverbial clauses of time, place, manner and reason have a structure that is in many ways similar to that of a relative clause and behave like object relative [r] ...
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Unveiling multiple wh - free relative clauses and their functional wh -words
... free relative clauses in general cannot be reduced to headed relative clauses without an overt nominal ...headed relative clauses, they are not exactly the same subset that ...
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The Use of Relative Clauses in Shaw’s Major Barbara :Implications of Teaching Grammar
... English relative clauses can be classified into six types of restrictive clauses as follows: subject relative clauses, direct object relative clauses (DO), Crown ...
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