English relative clauses
Acquisition of English Relative Clauses by Persian EFL Learners
... complexity, English relative clauses (RCs) are difficult to acquire for EFL ...Keywords: English Relative Clauses, Embeddedness, Focus, Sentence ...
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Textbooks for teaching and learning a foreign English language: Do they really facilitate students’ acquisition of English relative clauses?
... of English relative ...of relative clauses in second ...sequence relative clauses according to their ...of relative clauses were ...of relative clause use, ...
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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
... Unlike English which does not allow resumptive pronouns (RPs), Persian shows various behaviors across different relative clauses ...of English at three proficiency levels and also to 15 ...
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Acquisition of English Relative Clauses by Adult Persian Learners: Focus on Resumptive Pronouns
... of English to acquire L2 RCs is the direct transfer of L1 ...unlike English which only permits gaps, Persian permits both gaps and RPs in ...in English nor in ...in English RCs and gradually ...
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Persian Speakers’ Recognition of English Relative Clauses: The Effects of Enhanced Input vs. Explicit Feedback Types
... Relative Clausen (RC) errors are universal in nature and linger on for years. These universal features, as suggested by Izumi (2003), have unique syntactic properties and are the most commonly used structures that ...
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Impact of explicit instruction on EFL learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge: A case of English relative clauses
... The present study sought to investigate the effect of explicit instruction (direct proactive explicit instruction) on the acquisition of English passive objective relative clauses. Two groups of ...
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Semantic Structure of Relative Clauses in English and Arabic - A contrastive study in Sudanese Context -
... the relative clause "who was not there". In English, relative clauses are introduced by relative pronouns, such as: that, which, whichever, who, whoever, whom, whomever, ...the ...
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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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Acquisition of Zero Relative Clauses in English by Adult Turkish Learners of English
... when English does not entail any prepositions in zero relative clauses, Turkish learners do not experience any difficulty since the surface syntax of relative clause in Turkish also does not ...
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Learning of relative clauses by L3 learners of English
... of English relative clauses. The test comprised 24 English relative clause sentences, with an even split of three grammatical and three ungrammatical sentences in each category, plus ...
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The Correlation of Tenses in English and Albanian Time Clauses
... time clauses of anteriority is past perfect–past simple; simultaneity clauses, on the other hand, are usually characterized by the combination of past continuous-past simple; while relations of posteriority ...
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Constructing Filler-Gap Dependencies in Chinese Possessor Relative Clauses
... possessor relative clauses (PRCs) will suggest, surface subject positions are the most likely candidates for direct ...Chinese relative clauses (RCs), and classical effects such as locality ...
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Lelepa: topics in the grammar of a Vanuatu language
... (including English), Dixon found that in languages with an open class of adjectives such as English, seven semantic types were reflected in their adjective class: dimension, physical property, colour, human ...
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An inquiry into minimalist phrase structure
... I will investigate this proposal taking data from English degree constructions, namely result clauses and comparatives.. A comparison will be made between these constructions and English[r] ...
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Gap in “Gapless” Relative Clauses in Korean and Other Asian Languages
... the relative head noun and the RC: in English type European languages, unlike in Korean type East Asian languages, the head noun and the main event predicate in the GRC or RC are not close enough, so the ...
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Verb-preposition constructions and small clauses in English
... Small Clauses in subject position in sentences like (23) are best analysed as CPs which take an abstract prepositional complementiser in C which assigns Case to the SC subject:.. tcptcC][r] ...
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Complementiser Phrase: The Case of English Wh-Embedded Clauses
... of English Wh-Embedded Clauses? The general proficiency level of the participants, which was determined based on their performance in Oxford Quick Placement Test, put them into three groups of lower ...
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Effects of Form-Focused Instruction on the Learning of Relative Clauses
... With respect to the second research questions, “Can raising learner’s metalinguistic awareness of specific L2 forms – relative clause – facilitate acquisition?”, the results suggest that it facilitates grammatical ...
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Event-related potentials elicited by spoken relative clauses
... SO relative to SS sentences as clauses become more deeply embedded; this is why a sentence like The fireman who the cop who the doctor speedily cured rescued sued the city is essentially impossible to ...
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Semantically Governed Machine Translation of BE clauses with Adverbs and Prepositional Phrases Demonstration of a Ring Model for German/English, English/German including Analysis Synthesis, Transformation, Transition, and Generation
... Semantically Governed Machine Translation of BE clauses with Adverbs and Prepositional Phrases Demonstration of a Ring Model for German/English, English/German including Analysis Synthesis, Transforma[.] ...
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