The current study tries to test the assumption that use of meaningful drills and contextualized reading comprehension passages lead better understanding relative clauses. is based on idea meaning contexts are necessary for learning take place. It also aims empirically effect proposed by Christina Paulston acquisition A sample (30) first year undergraduate students English took part in this stud...

1. Introduction This paper analyses a number of word order alternations observed in relative clauses in Spanish and concludes that they are the result of intonational considerations. However, it is shown that the relevant intonational factors are not the same as those related to focalization (which is well-known to induce word order alternations in Spanish), but rather they relate to the relati...

Comparatively little is known about how semantic properties (such as animacy) and syntactic properties (such as word order) affect production of complex sentences. Relative clauses were elicited using a picture description task that manipulated head noun animacy in both English (which has head-first relative clauses and Japanese (head-final relative clauses). Participants of both languages prod...

This study investigates the comprehension of three kinds of subject-extracted relative clauses (SRs) in Mandarin Chinese: standard SRs, relative clauses involving the disposal ba construction ("disposal SRs"), and relative clauses involving the long passive bei constructions ("passive SRs"). In a self-paced reading experiment, the regions before the relativizer (where the sentential fragments a...

The detection of a gap in relative clauses is essential in syntactic and semantic analysis of natural language processing. This paper proposes automatic relative clause classification method based on various machine learning algorithms, and compare the classification performances of relative clauses. We use easily obtainable features that can be extracted from any language. We also analyze the ...

There are two common ways to assign relative importance in spoken language: tonic prominence and thematization. The former is expressing the main points of information units in speech (Halliday, 1994), and the latter is putting an element at the beginning of a clause. This study explores how relative importance is realized in English and Persian. It also investigates how advanced Persian learne...

Clausal izyooni ‘than’-comparatives in Japanese allow izyooni ‘than’-clauses with their degree positons filled. I consider them a degree version of Internally Headed Relative Clauses (IHRCs). In this preliminary study, I adopt Gross and Landman’s (2012) Choose Role analysis of IHRCs in Japanese and propose a similar functional category Choose Degree, which “re-opens” a degree variable position ...