Processing Difficulty in Comprehension and Production of Relative Clauses by Learners of English as a Second Language.

Izumi, Shinichi

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ERIC Number: EJ669733

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Processing Difficulty in Comprehension and Production of Relative Clauses by Learners of English as a Second Language.

Izumi, Shinichi

Language Learning, v53 n2 p285-323 Jun 2003

Tested the predictions of three major hypotheses of relative clause acquisition in second language acquisition: the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH), the Perceptual Difficulty Hypothesis (PDH) and the SO Hierarchy Hypothesis (SOHH). Analyses of data collected from 61 learners of English as a Second Language in three different elicitation tasks found mixed support for the NPAH and the SOJJ and full support for the PDH(Author/VWL)

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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