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Language Learning in the Wild: The L2 Acquisition of English Restrictive Relative Clauses

open access: yesLanguages
We argue that quantitative analysis of community-based speech data furnishes an indispensable adjunct to theoretical and experimental studies targeting the acquisition of relativization.
Stephen Levey   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Marking the specific direct object in restrictive relative clauses in spoken Farsi

open access: yesOrientalia Suecana, 2021
This study is an empirical investigation of both the distribution of the specific direct object marker rā in restrictive relative clauses in spoken Farsi and the degrees of acceptance of different patterns of this structure among 50 Farsi speakers ...
Jamie Rinder
doaj   +2 more sources

Determiner spreading in Rukiga [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistics, 2023
Determiner spreading, the phenomenon whereby adnominal modifiers carry an ‘additional’ determiner, has been studied extensively for a variety of languages, most notably Greek, Semitic, and Scandinavian languages. Interestingly, the same phenomenon occurs
Asiimwe Allen   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The effects of restrictiveness on relative clause processing in Farsi

open access: yesActa Psychologica
With an eye-tracking experiment, we investigated the processing of Farsi object and subject relative clauses. Since restrictive relative clauses in Farsi are marked and distinguished clearly by the enclitic particle ی /−i/ attached to the head noun, we ...
Pouran Seifi, Hanneke Loerts, Pim Mak
doaj   +5 more sources

Non-restrictive relative clauses in Arabic

open access: yesEnglish Linguistics Research, 2018
This paper discusses the syntax of non-restrictive relative clauses in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It provides a thorough description of their structures and attempts to offer a preliminary analysis within the transformation framework: Minimalist ...
Abdulrahman Alqurashi
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

The role of animacy and language proficiency in the comprehension of English restrictive relative clauses by Iranian EFL learners: an emergentist approach

open access: yesAsian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2018
Following an emergentist approach, the authors examined the comprehension of four different types of restrictive relative clauses (direct object/oblique vs. subject/indirect object) with animate/inanimate referents by Iranian EFL learners.
Mehrdad Rezaeian   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

On the production of restrictive pied-piping relative clauses in Italian: evidence from populations with typical and atypical language development

open access: yesIsogloss, 2022
Restrictive relative clauses are among the most frequently studied structures in language development across different languages and different populations.
Francesca Volpato
doaj   +2 more sources

Lexico-Semantic Influence on Syntactic Processing: An Eye-Tracking Study with Spanish Relative Clauses [PDF]

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2023
This paper investigates the interaction between lexicosemantic and syntactic information in sentence processing by examining the online comprehension of Spanish relative clauses (RCs) of both restrictive and non-restrictive types.
Esther Álvarez-García   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

An overview of relative clauses in Gavar

open access: yesAfrika und Übersee
The goal of this paper is to give a typological overview of the main characteristics of restrictive relative clauses in Gavar. The analysis is based on 572 examples of relative clauses taken from a corpus of 59 interlinearised texts, elicited examples ...
Melanie Viljoen
doaj   +2 more sources

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