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Download full textLee, Joyce; Wu, Kam Yin; Lee, Eric Ping Chung – THAITESOL Journal, 2022
Syntactic complexity is a crucial aspect of linguistic proficiency and thus understanding and supporting such development in learners is a keen concern for language teachers. Research conducted has shown growing sophistication of noun phrase structures by writers of different abilities in academic writing (Biber & Gray, 2010; Liu & Li,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Writing Skills, Language Proficiency, Technical Writing
Direct linkYip, Virginia; Matthews, Stephen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
Findings from a longitudinal study of bilingual children acquiring Cantonese and English pose a challenge to the noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH; Keenan & Comrie, 1977), which predicts that object relatives should not be acquired before subject relatives. In the children's Cantonese, object relatives emerged earlier than or…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, Word Order, Language Acquisition
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
Chan, Alice Y. W. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2004
This paper gives a contrastive analysis of noun phrases in English and Chinese. The syntactic features of the structures, the devices used to mark distinctions in number, case and gender, as well as the similarities and differences between English and Chinese relative clauses are discussed. Partly due to the documented differences between these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nouns, English (Second Language), Chinese
