The Acquisition of Relative Clauses

Name: The Acquisition of Relative Clauses | Processing, typology and function
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Processing, typology and function

Evan Kidd(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 23. November 2011

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The Acquisition of Relative Clauses
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of contributors
Introduction: The acquisition of relative clauses
References
1. Relative clauses
1. Introduction
2. Emergentism
3. The syntax of relative clauses
4. The processing of relative clauses
Prominence
The distance between filler and gap
Chinese
Japanese and Korean
Summary
5. The acquisition of relative clauses
The path problem
The closure problem
6. Concluding remarks
References
2. A connectionist account of the acquisition and processing of relative clauses
1. Introduction
2. The relative clause accessibility hierarchy
2.1 The accessibility hierarchy in development
3. Modeling the acquisition of relative clauses
3.1 Language and method
3.2 Modeling results
4. From acquisition to adult processing
4.1 Experience and relative clauses processing
5. Conclusion
References
3. Learning from social interaction
1. Introduction
1.1 Development of linguistic constructions in usage-based and constructivist approaches: Chunks, schemas, and prototypes
2. Form and function of relative clauses in adult-adult interactions
3. Form and function of relative clauses in child-adult interactions
3.1 A cross-linguistic comparison of subject and object RCs in children's and adults' speech
3.2 A cross-linguistic comparison of the head NPs in children's and adults' RC constructions
3.3 A cross-linguistic comparison of the function of RCs in children's and adults' speech
4. Experimental evidence for relative-clause chunks and prototypes
4.1 Propositional complexity
4.2 Similarity to simple main clauses
4.3 Linguistic and semantic context of subject and object RCs
5. New focus on function
6. Conclusion
References
4. Relative clause acquisition in Hebrew and the learning of constructions
Introduction
Relative clauses in Hebrew
The developmental path of relative clauses in Hebrew
Production
The corpus
Coding
Results and discussion
How adult-like are children's relative clauses?
How does the construction develop over time?
Comprehension
Input patterns and gender agreement
Method
Results and discussion
Integrating multiple cues
What early constructions look like and how they develop over time
Conclusions
References
5. Finnish
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Relative clauses in Finnish
What we know about RC acquisition based on observational studies
Method
Corpus
Searches
Coding
Results
Relative clauses in Piia's speech
Discussion
The head referent
Centre-embedding
The syntactic role of the relativized element
The number of relative clauses in the Finnish data
Conclusion
References
6. Learning to produce Quechua relative clauses
Introduction
Quechua nominalized relative clauses
Questions and issues
Production of externally-headed, internally-headed, and free relatives
Ease of production of relative clauses according to the function of the relativized Noun Phrase
Nominalizing morphology in Quechua relative clauses
The elicitation procedure
Errors
Conversions
Heads
Cusco Quechua relative clauses
Nominalizations
Finite structures
Well-formed relative clauses
Heads
Subject-gap free relatives
Object-gap externally headed relatives
Conclusion
References
Appendix I: Protocols - Conchucos Quechua (Study #1)
Appendix II: Protocols - Cusco Quechua (Study #2)
7. The acquisition of relative clauses in Japanese
1. Introduction
2. Characteristics of Japanese relative clauses
3. Acquisition studies: Structural aspects
4. Acquisition studies: The semantic-functional aspects
Research background
Stativity of relative clauses
Head nouns
Contexts in which relative clauses are used
Input
5. General discussion
References
8. The acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese and Mandarin
1. Introduction
2. Chinese relative clauses
3. Prenominal RCs and competing processing demands in acquisition
3.1 Processing demands based on linear order: The case of English
3.2 Processing demands based on hierarchical sentence structure: The case of English
3.3 The noun phrase accessibility hierarchy
3.4 Processing demands based on linear order: The case of Chinese
3.5 Processing demands based on hierarchical sentence structure: The case of Chinese
3.6 Subject/object asymmetry in the acquisition of Chinese
4. Cantonese object classifier RCs as internally headed RCs
4.1 Possibility of an internally headed analysis in early Cantonese object relatives
5. Chinese RCs as a subset of noun-modifying constructions
6. Concluding remarks
References
9. Structural priming in comprehension of relative clause sentences
Method
Participants
Materials
Procedure
Results
Structure analysis
Prime x structure analyses
Eliminating the subject-object asymmetry
Discussion
References
Index

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