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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"relative clause processing"”.

  1. Effects of embedded pronouns on relative clause processing

    Haendler, YairUniversität Potsdam

    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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  2. Relative clause processing in Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese

    Miyamoto, Edson T. (Edson Tadashi), 1966-Massachusetts Institute of Technology1999

    … 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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  3. Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects

    Stevens, LeeAnn SThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2019

    … <p>The present study examines group-level processing differences between Spanish heritage speakers and Spanish-English late bilinguals in English, the second-learned and current societal majority language of these populations. Dominance is also analyzed as a possible effect of group …

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  4. Comprehending Mandarin Relative Clauses: Ambiguity, Locality and Expectation

    Lin, YowyuUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

    … 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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  5. Processing of English relative clauses by adult L2 learners

    Baek, SoondoUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2012

    … of the characteristics of the L2 sentence processing mechanism deployed by adult L2 learners would provide valuable insights into this important human ability. The present dissertation is an attempt to draw a detailed picture of the L2 sentence processing mechanism by comparing L1 speakers …

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