The acquisition of relative clauses: A crosslinguistic, corpus-based approach

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titleThe acquisition of relative clauses: A crosslinguistic, corpus-based approach
start_date2018/04/04
schedule17h-19h
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detailsthème : Where do universals of language acquisition, processing, and disorders come from? A cross-linguistic, corpus-based approach
summaryAlthough previous research focused on the experimental paradigm, which sometimes lacked ecological validity, a more comprehensive picture of relative clause acquisition has become clearer, thanks to crosslinguistic corpus-based research in this domain. I will discuss such research primarily focusing on English (Diessel & Tomasello, 2000), Japanese (Ozeki & Shirai, 2007, 2010) and Chinese (Chen & Shirai, 2015), with particular reference to subject-object asymmetry and Comrie’s (e.g. 2002) new typology of attributive vs. relative clauses.
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