Relative Clauses
The Use of Relative Clauses in Shaw’s Major Barbara :Implications of Teaching Grammar
... the relative clauses from three compositions and analyzed them in respect of the three dimensions ofKeenan and Comrie ...find relative clauses formation in English similar to their native ...
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The Use of Relative Clauses in Humanities and Social Sciences Research Articles: A Case Study
... Although relative clauses play a significant role in sentence complexity, they have received relatively limited attention from researchers investigating academic ...use relative clauses in ...
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Unveiling multiple wh - free relative clauses and their functional wh -words
... free relative clauses, rather than any other new or already attested kind of wh- clause in ...interrogative clauses and headed relative clauses with universally quantified subjects ...
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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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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 Persian ...
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Constructing Filler-Gap Dependencies in Chinese Possessor Relative Clauses
... This proposal also receives independent support from other languages with prenominal relative clauses like Japanese and Turkish. In Japanese, Fong and Hirose (2005) reported that object PRCs with objects ...
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Gap in “Gapless” Relative Clauses in Korean and Other Asian Languages
... clausal relative clauses (Keenan and Comrie 1977), based on non-GRCs, the hierarchy is not relevant to the underlyingly bi-clausal and superficially gapless Asian language relative ...bi-clausal ...
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Semantic Structure of Relative Clauses in English and Arabic - A contrastive study in Sudanese Context -
... discussed relative clauses in English and Arabic syntactically and semantically and highlighted the symmetries and asymmetries between these clauses in both ...that relative clauses in ...
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Acquisition of Zero Relative Clauses in English by Adult Turkish Learners of English
... of relative clauses by second language learners has been considerably investigated in recent ...of relative clause constructions have been ...these clauses containing variations ranging from ...
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The role of working memory and contextual constraints in children's processing of relative clauses
... sentences. Therefore, the processing cost associated with embedded sentences can be attributed to difficulties in resolving the interrupted main clause, rather than to the lack of understanding of the function of the ...
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Movement and feature-checking in Korean: Relative clauses, topicalization, and case-marking
... First of all, following in essence Cinque (1992), I propose that there is a functional category. Agreement Phrase (AgrP) whose specifier position is occupied by the pre-nominal modifiers. I argue for the existence of ...
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Report of AG 1: Experimental and theoretical approaches to relative clauses reconciled
... observation: Relative clauses have been at the center of research in linguistic theory, psycho- /neurolinguistics, and language acquisition as well as cognitive psychology; nevertheless, these disciplines ...
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Relative clauses and conjunctive adjuncts in Syrian University student writing in English
... about relative clauses have strong positive ...than relative clauses, did not show any gains in relativization ability, the experimental groups' knowledge of that structure improved ...
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Acquisition of English Relative Clauses by Persian EFL Learners
... Due to their structural complexity, English relative clauses (RCs) are difficult to acquire for EFL learners. This study tested the predictions of seven major hypotheses proposed on the difficulty order of ...
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Learning of relative clauses by L3 learners of English
... 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 three distractors ...
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An Interaction Grammar of Interrogative and Relative Clauses in French
... ative clauses under some conditions. For the relative clauses, inversion is usually possible, but there is a case in which it is strictly forbidden: when there is a possi- ble confusion between the ...
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Textbooks for teaching and learning a foreign English language: Do they really facilitate students’ acquisition of English relative clauses?
... Relative clauses (RCs) have been cited as one of the most difficult grammatical structures for English as a second language (ESL) learners to learn (Cho & Lee, ...
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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
... This paper was an attempt to investigate the acquisition of the uninterpretable feature of resumptive pronouns by Persian foreign language learners of English. Tsimpli and Dimitrakopolou (2007) asserted that ...
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The role of animacy and language proficiency in the comprehension of English restrictive relative clauses by Iranian EFL learners: an emergentist approach
... of relative clauses. As for the rela- tive clauses, we would hypothesize that the frequency of occurrence is relevant to the difficulty of relative ...the relative clause in maternal ...
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The acquisition of German relative clauses: A case study
... ordinary relative clauses ...of relative clause ...subordinate clauses are discrete categories defined by syntactic tests, it can easily be accommodated by the usage-based approach, in which ...
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