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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"relative clause"”.
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A study of the Navajo relative clause.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1973. M.S.
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Effects of embedded pronouns on relative clause processing
Difficulties with object relative clauses (ORC), as compared to subject relative clauses (SR), are widely attested across different languages, both in adults and in children. This SR-ORC asymmetry is reduced, or even eliminated, when the embedded constituent in the ORC is a pronoun, rather than a …
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Relative clause processing in Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese
… experiments in Japanese using main/embedded clause ambiguities are reported in support of this claim. The second part of the dissertation (Chapters 2, 3 and 4) uses a well-established generalization as a starting point, namely, that a modifying phrase is preferentially attached to the closest …
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Use of a Thematic Template in L2 Korean Relative Clause Comprehension
… NVNV templates in the comprehension of Korean relative clauses by L2 learners. Together, these studies offer insights into the heuristics employed by L2 users when processing Korean relative clauses. The functional labeling of bare NVN strings by English-speaking learners was not initiated …
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A Transformational Analysis of the Relative Clause in Urban Mexican Spanish
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Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects
… processing asymmetry between subject-relative clauses and object-relative clauses is examined utilizing eye-tracking in the visual world paradigm to analyze bilingual processing in this study. Processing is measured through gaze fixation, and language dominance is operationalized using …
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Convergent probabilistic cues do not trigger syntactic adaptation in relative clause garden-path constructions
… input (e.g., a high number of reduced relative-clause garden path sentences) and that these readers grow to disfavor the a priori more frequent structure after exposure (Fine, Jaeger, Qian, & Farmer, 2013). However, recent work has failed to replicate effects indicating a penalty for …
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Constraints on Clausal Complex Noun Phrases in Korean With Focus on the Gapless Relative Clause Construction
… subtypes of clausal complex noun phrases. The relative clause construction has three subtypes: argument gap relative clause construction, adjunct gap relative clause construction and the gapless relative clause construction; the noun complement clause construction has two subtypes: free noun …
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Great (Syntactic) Expectations: Multiple Structures and the Case for Parallelism in Language Processing
… possibility for how a sentence will continue. Relatively little research has used ERPs to answer this question, and previous studies have examined brain responses at a point in the sentence when competing theories would make similar predictions. In two experiments, sentences were presented to …
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Topics in the Grammar of Koryak
… attraction, a phenomenon where the head of a relative clause is marked with the case of the gap inside the relative clause, is the result of an internally-headed relative clause with a left-peripheral head, a type of relative clause that has otherwise only been proposed for the Gur languages …
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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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Morphological variability in long-distance subject-verb agreement: A study of native and nonnative processing
… southern Mexico) or a structurally more complex relative clause (who hunted in Mexico). Subject number (singular or plural) was also manipulated in the task in order to examine whether the marked plural feature facilitated agreement establishment even as distance increased (Wagers et al., 2009). …
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Clausal nominalization in Wolof
… i.e. genitive nominalization (GN), relative clause nominalization (RC nominalization) and headless relative clause nominalization. This dissertation provides a description of these nominalization processes with a special focus on GNs and RC nominalizations. RC nominalization is a …
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The Availability of Semantic and Syntactic Information and Their Use As A Structural Predictor In the Real-Time Processing of L1 and L2 Korean
… contained a classifier construction and the relative clause, where the semantic match between a classifier and its closest candidate licensing noun as well as the case marker of the noun was manipulated. </p> <p> The results showed that both L1 and L2 parsers were sensitive to the available …
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Online Processing of Wh-Dependencies in English by Native Speakers of Spanish
… the grammar, to be specific, extraction out of relative clause islands. The data collected in both experiments were subject to a residual reading times analysis. The results of the two experiments suggest that Spanish-speaking learners of English process wh-dependencies incrementally and that …
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Working Memory Effects on Bilingual Sentence Processing
… six experiments examined the online and offline relative clause attachment preferences of English monolingual speakers, Korean monolingual speakers, and late Korean/English bilingual speakers when processing globally ambiguous English and Korean relative clauses. Results showed that both the …
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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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Individual differences in syntactic processing during reading: a psycholinguist’s “two disciplines” problem
… were chosen for the current investigation: the relative processing difficulty for object- versus subject-extracted relative clauses; the effect of verb biases in reading a sentential complement; and the tendency to resolve relative clause attachment ambiguities to low attachment sites. Each of …
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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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Superlative degree clauses : evidence from NPI licensing
… grammatical elements. Specifically, an embedded clause structure which appears at first glance to be a restrictive relative clause modifier will be argued to be an argument of the superlative morpheme, and an analysis will be presented that brings superlatives in line with comparatives in finding …
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