Subject Advantage in L1-English Learners' Production of Chinese Relative Clauses.
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DOI: 10.1007/s10936-022-09865-9
Abstract: This study investigated whether L1-English Chinese learners show a subject preference in their oral production of Chinese relative clauses (RCs) and whether they show animacy effects. We conducted a picture-based elicited production experiment that compared… read more here.
Keywords: chinese relative; production chinese; relative clauses; object rcs ... See more keywords
The actress was on the balcony, after all: Eye-tracking locality and PR-availability effects in Spanish
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104624
Abstract: The relationship between syntactic ambiguity and locality has been a reliable cornerstone in theories of language comprehension with one exception: non-local preferences in object-modifying relative clauses preceded by two potential hosts (DP1 of DP2 RC).… read more here.
Keywords: availability; balcony eye; tracking locality; relative clauses ... See more keywords
False belief and relative clauses in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2018.04.001
Abstract: Previous studies have suggested sentential complementation is the crucial ingredient of language that relates to false-belief (FB) reasoning, while the role of relative clauses (RCs) is less clear. Nevertheless, under the hypothesis that clausal embedding… read more here.
Keywords: relative clauses; disorders false; clauses autism; belief relative ... See more keywords
Seeing events vs. entities: The processing advantage of Pseudo Relatives over Relative Clauses
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2019.04.001
Abstract: Abstract We present the results of three offline questionnaires (one attachment preference study and two acceptability judgments) and two eye-tracking studies in French and English, investigating the resolution of the ambiguity between pseudo relative and… read more here.
Keywords: relative clauses; pseudo; relative clause; pseudo relatives ... See more keywords
Karachay–Balkar relative clauses: Implications for a special type of genitive/nominative alternation
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DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102875
Abstract: Taking reduced relative clauses as the basis of comparison, this study investigates Karachay–Balkar non-subject relative clauses with two different patterns. The subject in the modifier clause can bear the genitive case in the presence of… read more here.
Keywords: balkar relative; absence; relative clauses; genitive nominative ... See more keywords
Why do L2 learners choose the implicit marker for object relative clauses when it is optionally explicit?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103097
Abstract: Abstract This corpus-based study investigates variables that may affect the selection of implicit/explicit markers in L1 and L2 English for object relative clauses (ORCs). The results show that compared to L1ers, L2ers choose the implicit… read more here.
Keywords: relative clauses; marker; object relative; choose implicit ... See more keywords
Mandarin–English speaking bilingual and Mandarin speaking monolingual children’s comprehension of relative clauses
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DOI: 10.1017/s0142716419000079
Abstract: Abstract The current study investigated the comprehension of subject and object relative clauses (RCs) in bilingual Mandarin–English children (N = 55, Mage = 7 years, 5 months [7;5], SD = 1;8) and language-matched monolingual Mandarin-speaking… read more here.
Keywords: mandarin english; comprehension; relative clauses; mandarin speaking ... See more keywords
The nature and frequency of relative clauses in the language children hear and the language children read: A developmental cross-corpus analysis of English complex grammar.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000921000957
Abstract: As written language contains more complex syntax than spoken language, exposure to written language provides opportunities for children to experience language input different from everyday speech. We investigated the distribution and nature of relative clauses… read more here.
Keywords: grammar; relative clauses; language children; language ... See more keywords
Beyond input: Language learners produce novel relative clause types without exposure.
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DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2021.1928678
Abstract: ABSTRACT Syntax famously consists of abstract hierarchical representations. Less famously, most theories of syntax also assume a higher level of abstract representation: one that abstracts over the hierarchical representations. The existence of such representations would… read more here.
Keywords: relative clauses; beyond input; relative clause; syntax ... See more keywords
Memory Versus Expectation: Processing Relative Clauses in a Flexible Word Order Language
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DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13227
Abstract: Abstract Memory limitations and probabilistic expectations are two key factors that have been posited to play a role in the incremental processing of natural language. Relative clauses (RCs) have long served as a key proving… read more here.
Keywords: relative clauses; language; word; versus expectation ... See more keywords
Functional near‐infrared spectroscopy shows that object relative clauses are more difficult to process than subject relative clauses in Turkish
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DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15930
Abstract: It was suggested that processing subject relative clauses (SRCs) is universally easier than processing object relative clauses (ORCs) based on the studies carried out in head‐initial languages such as English and German. However, studies in… read more here.
Keywords: processing; relative clauses; functional near; spectroscopy ... See more keywords