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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Relative Clauses"”.
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French relative clauses.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Studies in Basque syntax: relative clauses.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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Differences Between Full and Reduced Relative Clauses
… they did not generalize to the center-embedded clauses tested here. The findings also raise the possibility that other effects may have been attributed to clause structure in previous experiments.
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An LFG approach to Modern Greek Relative Clauses
… thesis presents an account of the properties of Relative Clauses in Modern Greek, with particular focus on the distribution of the resumption and gap relativization strategies. For the most part relative clauses have been regarded in the literature as a type of Long Distance dependencies with …
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The Syntax and Typology of Bantu Relative Clauses
… and differences found across complementizer-type relative clauses in the Bantu languages, focusing on strong correlations between points of variation. The facts I discuss concern co-variation between agreement in the C-T domain and subject-verb inversion as well as co-variation between object …
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Comprehending Mandarin Relative Clauses: Ambiguity, Locality and Expectation
… 3 and 4) to help resolve temporary ambiguity. Relative clauses were also embedded in constructions that alter the default SVO order such as the BA (object focusing) and BEI (passive) constructions to investigate how word order changes would influence relative clause processing (Experiments 4 …
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Relative clauses in dialects of English : a typological approach
… Irish English, with regard to mainly adnominal relative clauses. Other types of relative clauses (nominal relative clauses, sentential relative clauses, and intermediate types assembled on a cline) are treated in brief. The approach is partly descriptive, partly functional, over which a …
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Processing of English relative clauses by adult L2 learners
… the processing of subject- and object-extracted relative clauses (SRs and ORs) in English were tested with the animacy of nouns systematically manipulated. The effect of individual differences in WMC was also explored. The results from L1 speakers corroborated previous findings (i) that ORs are …
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Processing relative clauses. Effects of pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic variables
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The syntax and processing of relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese
This thesis investigates relative clauses (henceforth RCs) in Mandarin Chinese as spoken in Taiwan from both syntactic and processing perspectives. I also explore the interaction between these two areas, for example, how evidence from one area lends support to or undermines theories in the other …
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The Acquisition of English Restrictive Relative Clauses by Native Speakers of Persian
… different types of English restrictive relative clauses. A comprehension experiment with 50 Iranians was conducted to search for the universal linguistic factors responsible for the ease or difficulty of these sentences. Three hypotheses were evaluated--Interruption, Word Order …
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The Acquisition of English Restrictive Relative Clauses by Native Speakers of Arabic
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The Syntax of Relative Clauses and Related Phenomena in Proto-Indo-European
In this thesis, I reconstruct the syntax of relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European (PIE). Syntactic reconstruction, particularly in the case of PIE, has presented a perennial challenge to Comparative Philologists. I demonstrate that Minimalist reconstruction provides a viable methodology through …
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The Effect of Second Language Instruction on Acquisition of Relative Clauses in the Russian Language
… the Russian language. According to this theory, relative clauses (RC) are acquired in a fixed unidirectional order: from subject (S) - the highest (unmarked) and more susceptible to relativization position - to object of comparative (OCOM) - the lowest (marked) and less susceptible to …
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On L2 Grammar and Processing: The Case of Oblique Relative Clauses and the Null-Prep Phenomenon
This study contributes to the field of SLA and L2 processing in various ways. First, it demonstrates that the grammatical representations may be dissociated from grammatical processing in the sense that L2 learners, unlike native speakers, can present unexpected asymmetries such as a convergent …
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