Universals in Relative Clause Acquisition
Evidence From Child and Adult L1 and L2 Learners of Hindi-urdu
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3160192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynne Hansen (Brigham Young University–Hawaii, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-158 |
| Publication date | 1986-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1986.tb00376.x |
| OpenAlex | W2066821631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
In the search for universals of relative clause acquisition, the present research investigated the comprehension of six types of Hindi-Urdu correlative sentences by child and adult L1 and L2 learners. Group comparisons show a sharper distinction between the performance of the first and second language learners than between the children and adults. While the native speakers tend to pay attention to case markers in interpreting sentences, the English-speaking learners tend to ignore these morphological cues, relying rather on a word order heuristic. The L1 errors, particularly those of the adults, are more systematic than the L2. Many of the learners do not appear to have any functional strategy for discovering the missing noun complement in the Hindi-Urdu correlative clauses and instead resort to random guessing. The paper concludes that language universals are available for the processing of complex structures only once a certain level of proficiency has been attained
First language · Hindi · Indo-European languages · Linguistic universal · Linguistics · Noun · Problem of universals · Relative clause · Second-language acquisition · Theoretical linguistics · Urdu · Word order · Language Development and Disorders · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
A First Language
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L2 Data
Is Second Language Learning like the First
On strategies for processing relative clauses
Children's comprehension of relative clauses
Language Transfer and Universal Grammatical Relations
Interference and Natural Language Processing in Second Language Acquisition
A Case Study of a Japanese Child Learning English as a Second Language1,2
Is There a "Natural Sequence" in Adult Second Language Learning
An Error in Error Analysis1
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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