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Interaction of Multiple Factors in Relative Clause Construal and Acquisition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2007

Yoshiko Matsumoto
Yoshiko Matsumoto
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Stanford University
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A valuable perspective can be gained by examining whether claims about certain linguistic phenomena that were made largely based on observations from particular languages still hold for similar constructions in typologically different languages. This thematic issue contributes to SLA research in this respect by rethinking the putative universal influence of the noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH; Keenan & Comrie, 1977) on the acquisition of relative clause (RC) constructions in a second language (L2). The NPAH has been strongly supported by numerous studies in English and other European languages such as French, Italian, and Swedish; the articles in this special issue examine L2 RC acquisition in East Asian languages such as Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 367 - 374
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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