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Ozeki, Hiromi; Shirai, Yasuhiro – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
Although Keenan and Comrie's (1977) noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH) has been shown to predict the difficulty order of relative clauses (RCs) in SLA, most studies of the NPAH have been on European languages. This paper tests the prediction for Japanese. Study 1 analyzes RCs in an oral interview corpus from 90 learners of Japanese at four…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers