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Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Relation to Language Universals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2007

John A. Hawkins
John A. Hawkins
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Cambridge University
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The articles in this special issue present very interesting data on the acquisition of relative clauses (RCs) in Japanese, Korean, and Cantonese. The errors and developmental patterns are partially different from those that have been observed in European languages, and they appear to go against predictions made by the Keenan and Comrie (1977) noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH).

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 337 - 344
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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