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Publication details [#32954]

Izumi, Shinichi. 2003. Processing Difficulty in Comprehension and Production of Relative Clauses by Learners of English as a Second Language. Language Learning 53 (2) : 285–323.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

relative clause | second language acquisition

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0023-8333

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/lang

Annotation

This study explores three major hypotheses on relative clause acquisition in second language acquisition: Keenan and Comrie's (1977) Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH), Kuno's (1974) Perceptual Difficulty Hypothesis (PDH), and Hamilton's (1994) SO Hierarchy Hypothesis (SOHH).