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Impact of the Intrinsic Complexity and Prior Linguistic Knowledge on the Acquisition of Relative Clauses

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Golpar Bahar; Gero Kunter – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2024

The study explores the extent to which the intrinsic complexity of relative clauses (RCs) and prior linguistic knowledge impact the acquisition of RCs by L2 learners. The study investigates the main sources of the erroneous and avoided types of English RCs produced by Persian-speaking learners of English at three proficiency levels. The data…

Descriptors: Prior Learning, Phrase Structure, Error Analysis (Language), Native Language