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Second Language Relative Clause Acquisition: An Examination of Cross-Linguistic Influences

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Chang, Yuh-Fang – Online Submission, 2004

English is a Right Branching Direction (RBD) language in which relative clauses appear to the right of the head noun. In contrast, Chinese primarily relies on a Left Branching Direction (LBD) in which relative clauses premodify the head. Many studies have provided evidence that the differences in principal branching directions between the two…

Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), English (Second Language), Chinese, Second Language Learning