Here the man is a definite nominal antecedent, who a relative pronoun (referring to the antecedent), and who is wearing a red jacket a restrictive relative clause, where the relative pronoun plays the role of the subject. However, cross-linguistically – but also language-internally – there are many types of relative clauses. In this article I intend to discuss the range of possibilities and pre...

This study investigates whether number dissimilarities on subject and object DPs facilitate the comprehension of subject- and object-extracted centre-embedded relative clauses in children with Grammatical Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI). We compared the performance of a group of English-speaking children with G-SLI (mean age: 12;11) with that of two groups of younger typically developing (...

tsimpli and dimitrakopoulou (2007) observed that uninterpretable features are unavailable in second language (l2) acquisition after the critical period. in this paper, we verify this claim by providing evidence from persian speaking learners of english as an l2 on the status of resumptive pronouns (rps) as uniterpretable features. unlike english which does not allow rps, persian shows various b...

Language production studies tend to investigate central tendencies, though there are extensive individual differences in any production task. Studying this variability in behavior can be revealing of the motivations and consequences of production choices. In a picture-description task, participants used either active object or passive relative clauses to describe animate or inanimate entities i...

The Entropy Reduction Hypothesis (Hale, 2006) derives the subject-object asymmetry in Korean relative clauses. This asymmetry has been observed by Kwon, Polinsky, and Kluender (2006), among others. Agreement between the Entropy Reduction predictions and the available empirical data suggests that the heightened comprehension difficulty attested in object-extracted relatives is due to distinctive...