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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 11:27:12
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The Comprehension of Relative Clauses by Romance Learners of English: Syntactic and Semantic Influences: Duffeler

 


Title: The Comprehension of Relative Clauses by Romance Learners of
English: Syntactic and Semantic Influences 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-comprehension-of-relative-clauses-by-romance-learners-of-english-syntactic-and-semantic-influences 


Author: Marie-Anne C.M. Duffeler

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932632 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

Relative clauses have fascinated linguists and psycholinguists for a long time
because of their syntactic complexity and their high frequency in language.
This dissertation examines the comprehension of syntactically and semantically
varied relative clauses by learners of English having French or Italian as L1.
It shows first that the L2 comprehension of relative clauses follows a
gradient of difficulty, but that the latter does not match Keenan and Comrie’s
(1977) Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy. Second, it reveals that this
comprehension is affected by syntactic as well as semantic variables. In
particular, it is influenced by the syntactic function of the relative clause,
the syntactic placement of the preposition in oblique relative clauses, and
the semantic content of the preposition used in oblique relative clauses.
Finally it fails to demonstrate evidence of cross-linguistic transfer. These
results lead to the conclusion that theoretical accounts of relative clause
comprehension based only on syntax cannot be satisfactory, that methodological
precision is essential in the study of relative clauses, and finally that L2
learners may acquire native-like parsing strategies.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Romance


Written In: English  (eng)

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