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 …

The articles in this special issue present very interesting data on the acquisition of relative
clauses (RCs) in Japanese, Korean, and Cantonese. The errors and developmental patterns …

This study tested the predictions of three major hypotheses of relative clause acquisition in
second language acquisition: Keenan and Comrie's (1977) Noun Phrase Accessibility …

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 …

This paper discusses two influential studies on relative clauses (RC), and addresses the
development of relative clauses in the interlanguage of advanced Chinese English-as-a …

Why are crosslinguistic generalizations like the noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH)
relevant to our understanding of language acquisition? The answer to this question relies on …

This article reports on a crosslinguistic comparative study of the processing of Japanese
relative clauses (RCs) by Chinese-, Sinhalese-, Vietnamese-, Thai-, and Indonesian …

Findings from a longitudinal study of bilingual children acquiring Cantonese and English
pose a challenge to the noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH; Keenan & Comrie …

In response to new theoretical claims and inconclusive empirical findings regarding relative
clauses in East Asian languages, this study examined the factors relevant to relative clause …

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 …