A subject-object asymmetry in the acquisition of relative clauses in Korean as a second language

W O'Grady, M Lee, M Choo - Studies in Second language …, 2003 - cambridge.org
A variety of studies have reported that learners of English as a second language find subject
relative clauses easier to produce and comprehend than direct object relatives, but it is …

Factors affecting the processing of Japanese relative clauses by L2 learners

K Kanno - Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007 - cambridge.org
This article reports on a crosslinguistic comparative study of the processing of Japanese
relative clauses (RCs) by Chinese-, Sinhalese-, Vietnamese-, Thai-, and Indonesian …

Asymmetries in children's production of relative clauses: data from English and Korean

CE Kim, W O'GRADY - Journal of child language, 2016 - cambridge.org
We report here on a series of elicited production experiments that investigate the production
of indirect object and oblique relative clauses by monolingual child learners of English and …

The comprehension of Turkish relative clauses in second language acquisition and agrammatism

Ö Aydin - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007 - cambridge.org
The purposes of this study are to test whether the processing of subject relative (SR) clauses
is easier than that of object relative (OR) clauses in Turkish and to investigate whether the …

Processing strategies in the acquisition of relative clauses: Universal principles and language-specific realizations

PM Clancy, H Lee, MH Zoh - Cognition, 1986 - Elsevier
In this study we present a cross-linguistic analysis of the strategies used by Korean,
Japanese and English-speaking children in processing sentences with relative clauses. The …

Does the noun phrase accessibility hierarchy predict the difficulty order in the acquisition of Japanese relative clauses?

H Ozeki, Y Shirai - Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007 - cambridge.org
Although Keenan and Comrie's (1977) noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH) has
been shown to predict the difficulty order of relative clauses (RCs) in SLA, most studies of …

Development of relativization in Korean as a foreign language: The noun phrase accessibility hierarchy in head-internal and head-external relative clauses

KS Jeon, HY Kim - Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007 - cambridge.org
This study examines how Keenan and Comrie's (1977) noun phrase accessibility hierarchy
(NPAH) intersects with the typological characteristics of Korean in the acquisition of relative …

Young children's production of head-final relative clauses: Elicited production data from Chinese children

CC Natalie Hsu, G Hermon, A Zukowski - Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2009 - Springer
This study examines young children's production of head-final relative clauses (RCs) in
Chinese. Three different hypotheses (the Canonical Word Order Hypothesis, the Filler-gap …

An ERP study of the processing of subject and object relative clauses in Japanese

M Ueno, SM Garnsey - Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Using reading times and event-related brain potentials (ERPs), we investigated the
processing of Japanese subject and object relative clauses (SRs/ORs). Previous research …

[PDF][PDF] Relative clause acquisition in Hebrew: Towards a processing-oriented account

I Arnon - Proceedings of the 29th Boston University Conference …, 2005 - academia.edu
Relative clauses have been extensively studied in language acquisition due to their
complex structure and the apparent difficulty children have with them. Their study has been …