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  • Acquisition of English relative clauses by native speakers of Kurdish Sorani

  • Golpar Bahar
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique / Volume 68 / Issue 3 / September 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 November 2023, pp. 414-434
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  • The present study investigates several linguistic factors that might be determinants of differences in the ease of acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) in L2 contexts, using the acquisition of English relative clauses by Kurdish Sorani native speakers. The analysis of 1440 subject and object RCs formed by Kurdish Sorani-speaking learners of English in a sentence combination task and a sentence translation task indicates that the syntactic functions of the noun phrase (NP) relativized in the RC, the position of the RC in the matrix clause (whether centre- or right-embedded), and the properties of RCs in L1 affect the acquisition and the formation of RCs in L2. The study also provides evidence that the syntactic functions of the relativized NP in the matrix clause, and the consistency/inconsistency of word orders in L1 and L2 do not influence the acquisition of RCs in L2.

  • 9 - Word Order and Related Syntactic Phenomena

  • Tania Ionin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book:
    Second Language Acquisition
    Published online:
    03 February 2023
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023, pp 269-300

  • Summary

    Chapter 9 addresses intervention study in a variety of phenomena related to word-order configurations that fall beyond the scope of preceding chapters. Four distinct topics are covered: sentence-level word order (canonical word order, such as subject–verb–object in English, vs. noncanonical word order, such as object–verb–subject), adjective ordering (how adjectives are placed with respect to the noun that they modify), relative clauses (clauses which modify nouns), and quantifier scope (the interpretation of ambiguous sentences containing indefinite and universal quantifiers). Within each topic, the chapter provides an overview of the relevant experimental findings from SLA before considering intervention studies on the topic. Chapter 9 has the most diverse representation of target languages in the textbook; the target languages in the intervention studies reviewed include English, German, Spanish, Russian, French, and Japanese.